Bis(pentafluorophenyl)phenothiazylborane – an intramolecular frustrated Lewis pair catalyst for stannane dehydrocoupling

Autor: Jordan N. Bentley, Ekadashi Pradhan, Tao Zeng, Christopher B. Caputo
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Dalton Transactions. 49:16054-16058
ISSN: 1477-9234
1477-9226
DOI: 10.1039/d0dt00506a
Popis: We synthesized a novel Lewis acidic aminoborane containing a phenothiazyl substituent and demonstrated its potential to catalytically promote the dehydrocoupling of tin hydrides. The observed reactivity would imply a homolytic frustrated Lewis pair type mechanism, however computational analysis suggests a heterolytic mechanism for this reaction. This result represents one of the first frustrated Lewis pair systems to dehydrocouple stannanes in a heterolytic fashion.
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