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Facile Carbon Monoxide Reduction at Intramolecular Frustrated Phosphane/Borane Lewis Pair Templates
Author(s) -
Sajid Muhammad,
Elmer LisaMaria,
Rosorius Christoph,
Daniliuc Constantin G.,
Grimme Stefan,
Kehr Gerald,
Erker Gerhard
Publication year - 2013
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.201208750
Subject(s) - frustrated lewis pair , borane , carbon monoxide , intramolecular force , chemistry , molecule , yield (engineering) , boranes , carbon fibers , lewis acids and bases , template , photochemistry , catalysis , stereochemistry , nanotechnology , organic chemistry , materials science , boron , composite number , metallurgy , composite material
A new reaction pathway : Carbon monoxide is readily reduced by Piers' borane at a frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) to yield a formylborane stabilized by the FLP (see picture). This reaction may be considered a typical example of efficient activation of a small molecule by a FLP.