Successive carbene insertion into 9-phenyl-9-borafluorene†
Abstract
The reactions of 9-phenyl-9-borafluorene with trimethylsilyldiazomethane in a 1 : 1 and 1 : 2 stoichiometry furnished the corresponding BC5 and BC6 heterocycles via the formal insertion of one and two carbene units.
- This article is part of the themed collection: Inorganic chemistry of the p-block elements