Issue 31, 2021
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Dalton Transactions

Dihydrogen cleavage by a dimetalloxycarbene–borane frustrated Lewis pair†

Albert Paparo, ORCID logo *a   Anh L. P. Nguyen, ORCID logo b   Jared S. Silvia,c   Thomas P. Spaniol,a   Laurent Maron, ORCID logo *d   Christopher C. Cummins ORCID logo *c  and  Jun Okuda ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, RWTH Aachen University, Landoltweg 1, 52056 Aachen, Germany
E-mail: jun.okuda@ac.rwth-aachen.de

b School of Chemistry, Monash University, PO Box 23, VIC, Australia

c Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

d Université de Toulouse et CNRS, INSA, UPS, UMR 5215, LPCNO135 Avenue de Rangueil, F-31077 Toulouse, France

Abstract

A frustrated Lewis pair of dititanoxycarbene [(Ti(N[tBu]Ar)3)2(μ-CO2)] (Ar = 3,5-Me2C6H3) and B(C6F5)3 cleaved dihydrogen under ambient conditions to give the zwitterionic formate [(Ti(N[tBu]Ar)3)2(μ-OCHO-ηO:ηO′)(B(C6F5)3)] and the hydrido borate [Ti(N[tBu]Ar)3][HB(C6F5)3].

Graphical abstract: Dihydrogen cleavage by a dimetalloxycarbene–borane frustrated Lewis pair

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D1DT02273C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
09 Jul 2021
Accepted
19 Jul 2021
First published
20 Jul 2021

Dalton Trans., 2021,50, 10692-10695

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Dihydrogen cleavage by a dimetalloxycarbene–borane frustrated Lewis pair

A. Paparo, A. L. P. Nguyen, J. S. Silvia, T. P. Spaniol, L. Maron, C. C. Cummins and J. Okuda, Dalton Trans., 2021, 50, 10692 DOI: 10.1039/D1DT02273C

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