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Reactions of phosphazines with primary and secondary boranes: adducts, rings and reduction

Vaibhav Bedi, ORCID logo a   Andrew Niles L. Ocampochua,a   Zheng-wang Qu, ORCID logo *b   Stefan Grimme ORCID logo b  and  Douglas W. Stephan ORCID logo *a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
E-mail: douglas.stephan@utoronto.ca

b Mulliken Center for Theoretical Chemistry, Clausius Institut für Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Beringstrasse 4, Bonn, Germany
E-mail: qu@thch.uni-bonn.de

Abstract

Reactions of (R3PN)2 with electrophilic boranes proceed via B–N adducts, while additional borane affords BN2 salts, whereas reactions with more electron rich boranes, Cy2BH or 9-BBN, prompt phosphazine reduction, giving phosphine and boryl-hydrazines.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D6CC00881J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
10 Feb 2026
Accepted
23 Feb 2026
First published
23 Feb 2026

Chem. Commun., 2026, Advance Article

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Reactions of phosphazines with primary and secondary boranes: adducts, rings and reduction

V. Bedi, A. N. L. Ocampochua, Z. Qu, S. Grimme and D. W. Stephan, Chem. Commun., 2026, Advance Article , DOI: 10.1039/D6CC00881J

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