1,2-Halosilane vs. 1,2-alkylborane elimination from (boryl)(silyl) complexes of iron: switching between borylenes and silylenes just by changing the alkyl group

Autor: Rian D. Dewhurst, Benedikt Wennemann, Qing Ye, Krzysztof Radacki, Holger Braunschweig
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England). 51(84)
ISSN: 1364-548X
Popis: Reaction of different combinations of aryl(dihalo)boranes and trialkylsilyl iron metallates, a route previously used to prepare a terminal iron arylborylene complex, is found to lead to three distinct new reaction outcomes, including unselective decomposition, an inert iron(II) (boryl)(silyl) complex, and a dinuclear bis(μ-silylene) complex. The latter result is to our knowledge the first example of a 1,2-alkylborane elimination, in contrast to the facile and ubiquitous 1,1-alkylborane elimination observed from (alkyl)(boryl) transition metal complexes, and is also a novel route to bridging silylene complexes.
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