Issue 8, 2018

Closely related yet different: a borylene and its dimer are non-interconvertible but connected through reactivity

Abstract

The self-stabilizing, tetrameric cyanoborylene [(cAAC)B(CN)]4 (I, cAAC = 1-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-3,3,5,5-tetramethylpyrrolidin-2-ylidene) and its diborene relative, [(cAAC)(CN)B[double bond, length as m-dash]B(CN)(cAAC)] (II), both react with disulfides and diselenides to yield the corresponding cAAC-supported cyanoboron bis(chalcogenides). Furthermore, reactions of I or II with elemental sulfur and selenium in various stoichiometries provided access to a variety of cAAC-stabilized cyanoboron–chalcogen heterocycles, including a unique dithiaborirane, a diboraselenirane, 1,3-dichalcogena-2,4-diboretanes, 1,3,4-trichalcogena-2,5-diborolanes and a rare six-membered 1,2,4,5-tetrathia-3,6-diborinane. Stepwise addition reactions and solution stability studies provided insights into the mechanism of these reactions and the subtle differences in reactivity observed between I and II.

Graphical abstract: Closely related yet different: a borylene and its dimer are non-interconvertible but connected through reactivity

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Article information

Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
06 Nov 2017
Accepted
02 Jan 2018
First published
04 Jan 2018
This article is Open Access

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Chem. Sci., 2018,9, 2252-2260

Closely related yet different: a borylene and its dimer are non-interconvertible but connected through reactivity

D. Auerhammer, M. Arrowsmith, R. D. Dewhurst, T. Kupfer, J. Böhnke and H. Braunschweig, Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 2252 DOI: 10.1039/C7SC04789D

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