A New Class of Neutral Boron-Based Diradicals Spanned by a Two-Carbon-Atom Bridge

Autor: Regina Drescher, Rian D. Dewhurst, Bernd Engels, Eileen Welz, Andrea Deissenberger, Holger Braunschweig, Ivo Krummenacher
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English). 58(6)
ISSN: 1521-3773
Popis: A new structural class of boron-based diradicals is prepared by Lewis base addition to and reduction of singly cyclic (alkyl)(amino)carbene (CAAC) stabilised diborylalkenes. The diradicals feature a perpendicular olefinic bridge preventing delocalization between the B(CAAC) π systems, making the coupling between the spin centres very weak. DFT calculations indicate that the compounds are ground-state (open-shell) singlets, with triplet states negligibly higher in energy, thus making the triplet states easily populated thermally.
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