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Cover Picture: Frustrated Lewis Pair Activation of an N ‐Sulfinylamine: A Source of Sulfur Monoxide (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 3/2015)
Author(s) -
Longobardi Lauren E.,
Wolter Vanessa,
Stephan Douglas W.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201411134
Subject(s) - carbon monoxide , sulfur , borane , chemistry , frustrated lewis pair , scanning tunneling microscope , monoxide , spectroscopy , catalysis , crystallography , lewis acids and bases , stereochemistry , nanotechnology , materials science , inorganic chemistry , organic chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics
Sulfur monoxide bears similarities to molecular oxygen, but unlike O 2 , SO is unstable on Earth and only found in outer space. In their Communication on page 809 ff., D. W. Stephan and co‐workers show that P/B frustrated Lewis pairs react with an N ‐sulfinylamine to form PNSOB linkages. These species can be regarded as phosphinimine–borane‐stabilized sulfur monoxide complexes, and they act as sources of SO, effecting the oxidation of PPh 3 and delivering SO to various acceptors.