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Published on: July 30, 2017
2-Vinyl-pyridine-tris-(penta-fluoro-phen-yl)borane hexane monosolvate
Marcus Klahn1, Anke Spannenberg, Uwe Rosenthal
1Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e. V. an der Universität Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Strasse 29a, 18059 Rostock, Germany.
Abstract:
The title compound, C(7)H(7)N·B(C(6)F(5))(3)·C(6)H(14), was obtained by the stoichiometric reaction of 2-vinyl-pyridine and tris-(penta-fluoro-phen-yl)borane in toluene. The formed adduct exhibits a restricted rotation along the B-N bond resulting in an asymmetry, which can be also observed in the (19)F NMR spectra. The B-N distance is equivalent to the distances found for 2-methyl-pyridine and 2-ethyl-pyridine B(C(6)F(5))(3) adducts. For the final refinement, the contributions of disordered solvent mol-ecules were removed from the diffraction data with SQUEEZE in PLATON [van der Sluis & Spek (1990). Acta Cryst. A46, 194-201; Spek (2009). Acta Cryst. D65, 148-155].
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