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Front Cover: Lewis Superacidic Tellurenyl Cation‐Induced Electrophilic Activation of an Inert Carborane (Chem. Eur. J. 59/2021)
Author(s) -
Hejda Martin,
Duvinage Daniel,
Lork Enno,
Lyčka Antonín,
Černošek Zdeněk,
Macháček Jan,
Makarov Sergey,
Ketkov Sergey,
Mebs Stefan,
Dostál Libor,
Beckmann Jens
Publication year - 2021
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.202103551
Subject(s) - carborane , electrophile , chemistry , atom (system on chip) , moiety , metastability , stereochemistry , organic chemistry , catalysis , computer science , embedded system
In a metastable N‐coordinated Lewis superacidic tellurenyl cation–carborane ion pair , the Te atom is trying to steal the H atom with help of a N atom. However, although at first glance the N atom is helping, he is actually planning to steal the asset for himself. The Town Musicians came to scare off the robbers, but they arrived too late, and thus nothing can stop nitrogen's plan. The broken window opens full insight into the electrophilic activation mechanism of the carborane moiety, which has been poorly understood so far. Elemental Te is watching the whole show and wondering how this is even possible; but was it the Te atom that broke the window? More information can be found in the Communication by M. Hejda, S. Ketkov, S. Mebs, J. Beckmann, et al. (DOI: 10.1002/chem.202103181).