Front Cover: Rational Design of a Carbon‐Boron Frustrated Lewis Pair for Metal‐free Dinitrogen Activation (Chem. Asian J. 9/2019) | Zendy

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Front Cover: Rational Design of a Carbon‐Boron Frustrated Lewis Pair for Metal‐free Dinitrogen Activation (Chem. Asian J. 9/2019)

Author(s) -

Zhu Jun

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

chemistry – an asian journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Reports

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.18

H-Index - 106

eISSN - 1861-471X

pISSN - 1861-4728

DOI - 10.1002/asia.201900327

Subject(s) - frustrated lewis pair , front cover , chemistry , boron , transition metal , cluster (spacecraft) , lewis acids and bases , crystallography , carbene , electron pair , carbon fibers , computational chemistry , stereochemistry , photochemistry , cover (algebra) , catalysis , materials science , electron , organic chemistry , physics , computer science , mechanical engineering , quantum mechanics , composite number , engineering , composite material , programming language

Metal‐free N 2 activation is predicted to be both thermodynamically and kinetically favorable by using a frustrated Lewis pair combining a methyleneborane unit with a N‐heterocyclic carbene (illustrated by the head and tail of a dragon). This is supported by high‐level coupled cluster calculations. Mechanistic studies reveal that aromaticity plays a crucial role in such a process by stabilizing both the transition state and the product. More information can be found in the Communication by Jun Zhu on page 1413 in Issue 9, 2019 (DOI: 10.1002/asia.201900010).

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