Active species, product distributions and a suggested catalytic cycle are reported for the dehydrocoupling of the phosphine–borane H3B·PtBu2H to give HPtBu2BH2PtBu2BH3 using the [Rh(COD)2][BArF4] pre-catalyst.
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Intermediates in the Rh-catalysed dehydrocoupling of phosphine–borane
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Department of Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratories, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
E-mail: andrew.weller@chem.ox.ac.uk
E-mail: andrew.weller@chem.ox.ac.uk
Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 7185-7187
DOI: 10.1039/C2CC32696E
Received 16 Apr 2012, Accepted 15 May 2012
First published online 18 May 2012
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