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Building Electron‐Precise BoronBoron Single Bonds: Imposing Monogamy on a Promiscuous Element
Author(s) -
Braunschweig Holger,
Dewhurst Rian D.,
Mozo Silvia
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chemcatchem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.497
H-Index - 106
eISSN - 1867-3899
pISSN - 1867-3880
DOI - 10.1002/cctc.201500219
Subject(s) - boron , reagent , main group element , electron deficiency , functional group , group (periodic table) , chemistry , combinatorial chemistry , computational chemistry , nanotechnology , materials science , crystallography , organic chemistry , catalysis , transition metal , polymer
The construction of BB bonds has recently become a major goal in synthetic chemistry owing to the intense interest in diboranes(4) as reagents for organic chemistry. Historically, synthetic methods suitable for this transformation are rare and most come with significant disadvantages. This article summarizes recent efforts by our group and others to provide new, mild, functional‐group‐tolerant, and convenient synthetic methods for the formation of electron‐precise BB single bonds.