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Fashionably Late: Synthesis and Characterization of Transition‐Metal–Fluoroborylene Complexes
Author(s) -
Braunschweig Holger,
Dewhurst Rian D.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201000841
Subject(s) - transition metal , transition (genetics) , characterization (materials science) , chemistry , nanotechnology , materials science , catalysis , organic chemistry , biochemistry , gene
B and F become BFFs : The last of the neutral first‐row main group diatomics, BF, has conspicuously eluded synthetic chemists and their attempts to stabilize it by transition metals. After decades of near misses, two contrasting families of fluoroborylene transition metal complexes have been definitively synthesized by the research groups of Aldridge and Andrews.