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Reactions of Amidinate-Supported Silylene with Organoboron Dihalides
Jiancheng Li1,2, Yashuai Liu2, Subrata Kundu2
1State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, National Engineering Laboratory for Green Chemical Productions of Alcohols-Ethers-Esters, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China.
Abstract:
The silicon atom in LSiCl or LSiMes (L = PhC(NtBu)2, Mes = 2,4,6-Me3C6H2) inserts into the B-X bond of RBX2 (R = Ph, Mes, N(SiMe3)2; X = Cl, Br), which is followed by the migration of the amidinate ligand and the halide atom. By this way, LB(R)SiCl3 (R = Ph, 2; Mes, 3; N(SiMe3)2, 4) and LB(R)SiX2Mes (R = Ph, X = Cl, 5; R = Mes, X = Cl, 6; R = Mes, X = Br, 7) were obtained. Furthermore, a silylene-borane adduct LClSi → BPhCl2 (1) was obtained as an intermediate in the formation of compound 2. Compounds 2-7 are rare examples of borylhalosilanes.
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