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Merle Arrowsmith1,2, Dominic Auerhammer1,2, Rüdiger Bertermann1,2
1Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074, Würzburg, Germany.
Abstract:
Reduction of carbene-borane adduct [(cAAC)BBr2 (CN)] (cAAC=1-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-3,3,5,5-tetramethylpyrrolidin-2-ylidene) cleanly yielded the tetra(cyanoborylene) species [(cAAC)B(CN)]4 presenting a 12-membered (BCN)4 ring. The analysis of the Kohn-Sham molecular orbitals showed significant borylene character of the BI atoms. [(cAAC)B(CN)]4 was found to reduce two equivalents of AgCN per boron center to yield [(cAAC)B(CN)3 ] and fragmented into two-coordinate boron(I) units upon reaction with IMeMe (1,3,4,5-tetramethylimidazol-2-ylidene) to yield the corresponding tricoordinate mixed cAAC-NHC cyanoborylene. The analogous cAAC-phosphine cyanoborylene was obtained by reduction of [(cAAC)BBr2 (CN)] in the presence of excess phosphine.
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