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The Chemistry of Borylene Complexes
Author(s) -
Braunschweig Holger,
Colling Miriam
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
european journal of inorganic chemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.667
H-Index - 136
eISSN - 1099-0682
pISSN - 1434-1948
DOI - 10.1002/ejic.200390054
Subject(s) - chemistry , carbene , organometallic chemistry , reactivity (psychology) , transition metal , boron , organic chemistry , computational chemistry , combinatorial chemistry , polymer chemistry , catalysis , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
Over the past seven years, complexes of various transition metals with bridged or terminal borylene ligands BR have for the first time been reported and fully characterised. Being closely related to important organometallic compounds, such as carbene, vinylidene, and carbonyl complexes, they have already attracted considerable interest both from experimental and computational points of view. Those studies have provided some detailed information about the nature of the metal−boron bond and about the nature of metal and borylene moieties required for the formation of stable complexes. Various methods for their preparation have been developed and the first studies on their reactivity have demonstrated an interesting chemistry. (© Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2003)