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  • Pseudodiborenes: hydride-bridged diboranes(5) as two-electron reductants of chalcogens.
    Chemical Communications, 2019
    Co-Authors: Dominic Prieschl, Maximilian Dietz, Jonas H. Muessig, Katharina Wagner, Ivo Krummenacher, Holger Braunschweig
    Abstract:

    The reactivity of two nucleophilic neutral sp2-sp3 diboranes towards chalcogens is presented herein. Both diboranes(5) serve as two-electron reductants, incorporating oxygen, sulfur and selenium atoms. Treatment with chalcogen sources results in the oxidative insertion of one chalcogen atom into the B-B single bond, while depending on the negative inductive effect of the chalcogen and the boron bound aryl substituent further N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ring expansion and hydride migration can occur. These reactions provide access to unprecedented six- or seven-membered heterocycles and help to illuminate the pseudo-multiple bonding character of hydrogen-bridged B-B single bonds.

  • diboryldiborenes π conjugated b4 chains isoelectronic to the butadiene dication
    Angewandte Chemie, 2018
    Co-Authors: Alexander Hermann, Ivo Krummenacher, Rian D Dewhurst, Michael J Ingleson, James D Mattock, Alfredo Vargas, Holger Braunschweig
    Abstract:

    sp2–sp3 diborane species based on bis(catecholato)diboron and N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) are subjected to catechol/bromide exchange selectively at the sp3 boron atom. The reduction of the resulting 1,1-dibromodiborane adducts led to reductive coupling and isolation of doubly NHC-stabilized 1,2-diboryldiborenes. These compounds are the first examples of molecules exhibiting pi-electron delocalization over an all-boron chain.

  • Quaternizing diboranes(4): highly divergent outcomes and an inorganic Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement.
    Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2013
    Co-Authors: Holger Braunschweig, Katharina Wagner, Rian D Dewhurst, Krzysztof Radacki, Alexander Damme, Thomas Kramer, Thomas Kupfer, Eva Siedler, Alexandra Trumpp, Christine Werner
    Abstract:

    Apart from a few compounds under heavy use in organic chemistry, diboranes are relatively exotic and poorly understood. Recently, interest in these molecules has intensified with the advent of so-called “sp2–sp3” diboranes which exhibit useful reactivity toward organic substrates. In our hands, addition of Lewis bases to dihalodiorganyl diboranes(4) has previously shown some very surprising reactivity, including a substituent exchange between the boron atoms, and diboranes in which halide atoms bridge the B–B bond. Herein we have expanded the range of diborane(4) and Lewis base reaction partners, in the process uncovering three new reactivity patterns as well as some cases where mixtures are obtained. Trends are established for the preferential formation of certain products which rationalize the results based on electronic and steric effects. The substituent exchange, clearly based on an inorganic version of the well-known Wagner–Meerwein rearrangement, was also found to be an equilibrium reaction with th...

  • Quaternizing Diboranes(4): Highly Divergent Outcomes and an Inorganic Wagner–Meerwein Rearrangement
    2013
    Co-Authors: Holger Braunschweig, Katharina Wagner, Rian D Dewhurst, Krzysztof Radacki, Alexander Damme, Thomas Kramer, Thomas Kupfer, Eva Siedler, Alexandra Trumpp, Christine Werner
    Abstract:

    Apart from a few compounds under heavy use in organic chemistry, diboranes are relatively exotic and poorly understood. Recently, interest in these molecules has intensified with the advent of so-called “sp2–sp3” diboranes which exhibit useful reactivity toward organic substrates. In our hands, addition of Lewis bases to dihalodiorganyl diboranes(4) has previously shown some very surprising reactivity, including a substituent exchange between the boron atoms, and diboranes in which halide atoms bridge the B–B bond. Herein we have expanded the range of diborane(4) and Lewis base reaction partners, in the process uncovering three new reactivity patterns as well as some cases where mixtures are obtained. Trends are established for the preferential formation of certain products which rationalize the results based on electronic and steric effects. The substituent exchange, clearly based on an inorganic version of the well-known Wagner–Meerwein rearrangement, was also found to be an equilibrium reaction with the halide-bridged Lewis adducts on the other side

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