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Carbene‐9‐BBN Ring Expansions as a Route to Intramolecular Frustrated Lewis Pairs for CO 2 Reduction
Author(s) -
Wang Tongen,
Stephan Douglas W.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201304870
Subject(s) - frustrated lewis pair , boranes , intramolecular force , ring (chemistry) , phosphine , borane , chemistry , nonane , carbene , lewis acids and bases , reduction (mathematics) , medicinal chemistry , catalysis , boron , stereochemistry , organic chemistry , mathematics , geometry
Reactions of phosphine‐derived carbenes with 9‐borabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane (9‐BBN) result in ring‐expansion reactions to generate novel intramolecular frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs). These FLPs effect the catalytic reduction of CO 2 in the presence of boranes to give BOB and methoxy‐borate species.
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