N-Heterocyclic Carbene Analogues with Low-Valent Group 13 and Group 14 Elements: Syntheses, Structures, and Reactivities of a New Generation of Multitalented …

M Asay, C Jones, M Driess - Chemical Reviews, 2011 - ACS Publications
The stabilization and isolation of highly reactive species has long been the subject of
chemical research. This review will focus on a large and important class of reactive species …

Electron-precise coordination modes of boron-centered ligands

H Braunschweig, RD Dewhurst, A Schneider - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
In 1963 Shriver reported a metal-boron dative bond in a complex formulated as [(η5-C5H5)
2WH2 (BF3)]. 33 However, these findings were refuted around 30 years later when differing …

sp 2–sp 3 diboranes: astounding structural variability and mild sources of nucleophilic boron for organic synthesis

RD Dewhurst, EC Neeve, H Braunschweig… - Chemical …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Despite the widespread use of organoborane reagents in organic synthesis and catalysis, a
major challenge still remains: very few boron-centered nucleophiles exist for the direct …

Chemistry of boryllithium: synthesis, structure, and reactivity

Y Segawa, Y Suzuki, M Yamashita… - Journal of the American …, 2008 - ACS Publications
A series of lithium salts of boryl anion, boryllithiums, were synthesized and characterized by
NMR spectroscopy and crystallographic analysis. In addition to the parent boryllithium …

Trivalent boron nucleophile as a new tool in organic synthesis: reactivity and asymmetric induction

J Cid, H Gulyas, JJ Carbo, E Fernandez - Chemical Society Reviews, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Boron compounds have been traditionally regarded as “Lewis acids” preferring to accept
electrons rather than donate them in the course of their reactions but current examples of …

Bulky guanidinates for the stabilization of low oxidation state metallacycles

C Jones - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
This article summarizes the development of a new class of very bulky guanidinate ligands.
These have been used to prepare unprecedented examples of heterocycles containing …

Copper-catalyzed enantioselective substitution of allylic carbonates with diboron: an efficient route to optically active α-chiral allylboronates

H Ito, S Ito, Y Sasaki, K Matsuura… - Journal of the American …, 2007 - ACS Publications
A method for the synthesis of α-chiral allylboronates featuring the Cu (I)-catalyzed
enantioselective substitution of readily available allylic carbonates with a diboron is …

[PDF][PDF] Synthesis and structure of a carbene-stabilized π-boryl anion

H Braunschweig, CW Chiu, K Radacki… - Angew. Chem. Int …, 2010 - academia.edu
One of the vital research areas in modern main-group chemistry is focused on the synthesis
of Group 13 carbene analogues. In contrast to the facile synthesis of anionic gallyl …

Isolation of a Bis (oxazol‐2‐ylidene)–Phenylborylene Adduct and its Reactivity as a Boron‐Centered Nucleophile

L Kong, Y Li, R Ganguly, D Vidovic… - Angewandte …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
An isolable phenylborylene species supported by two oxazol‐2‐ylidene ligands was
synthesized and structurally characterized. Computational studies revealed the presence of …

Isolation of 1, 2, 4, 3-triazaborol-3-yl-metal (Li, Mg, Al, Au, Zn, Sb, Bi) derivatives and reactivity toward CO and isonitriles

W Lu, H Hu, Y Li, R Ganguly… - Journal of the American …, 2016 - ACS Publications
3, 4-dihydro-2 H-1, 2, 4, 3-triazaborol-3-yl-lithium 3 was synthesized and fully characterized.
The 11B NMR spectrum, X-ray diffraction analysis, and computational studies revealed the …