Herein, we have undertaken the synthesis and reactivity of a 6-membered saturated NHC borane aduct (1). Direct electrophilic halogenation of 1 with a stoichiometric amount of I2 led to NHC...
The NHC•borane chemistry has been majorly restricted to imidazol-2-ylidene classes of carbenes. In our previous communication, we have reported the synthesis of 6-SIDipp•BH3 [6-SIDipp = 1,3-di(2,6-diisopropylphenyl) tetrahydropyrimidine-2-ylidene] and its electrophilic...
Compounds
of boranes with N-heterocyclic carbenes are known, yet
little attention has been paid to NHC compounds of boron bearing methyl
and halogen moieties together. The reason can be attributed to the
hazardous methyldichloroborane (MeBCl2), which ignites
in air. We describe here convenient solution-phase access to SIDipp·MeBCl2 (SIDipp = 1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazolin-2-ylidene)
(3) by a salt metathesis reaction of SIDipp·BCl3 (2) with MeLi. Replacement of the chlorine atoms
of 3 with stepwise addition of AgOTf led to the formation
of SIDipp·MeBCl(OTf) (4) and SIDipp·MeB(OTf)2 (5). In the case of 4, all of the
substituents on the boron atom are different. Subsequently, we extended
our synthetic approach to the amidinate system and prepared PhC(NtBu)2B(Me)Cl (7) from the reaction
of PhC(NtBu)2BCl2 (6) with MeLi.
The reaction of six-membered saturated NHC [1,3-di(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)
tetrahydropyrimidine-2-ylidene; henceforth abbreviated as 6-SIDipp]
with PhBCl2 yields a Lewis base adduct, 6-SIDipp·PhBCl2 (1), which readily undergoes nucleophilic substitution
reaction with AgNO3, leading to the single (2) and double (3) substitution of both chlorides with
ONO2 moieties at the boron atom. The reaction of 1 with 1 equiv of AlCl3 resulted in a borenium
cation of composition [6-SIDipp·B(Ph)Cl]+ (4) with AlCl4
– as the counteranion. Although
borenium cations with different substituents on boron have been reported,
a structurally characterized phenylchloroborenium cation remains unknown.
Similarly, the reaction of 1 with triflic acid provides
the first representative of a new class of borenium cations bearing
one hydroxyl and one phenyl group on boron (5), a cationic
analogue of borinic acid.
The synthesis of a SIPr [1,3‐bis(2,6‐diisopropylphenyl)‐imidazolin‐2‐ylidene] derived Kekulé diradicaloid with a tetrafluorophenylene spacer (3) has been described. Two synthetic routes have been reported to access 3. The cleavage of C−F bond of C6F6 by SIPr in the presence of BF3 led to double C−F activated compound with two tetrafluoro borate counter anions (2), which upon reduction by lithium metal afforded 3. Alternatively, 3 can be directly accessed in one step by reacting SIPr with C6F6 in presence of Mg metal. Compounds 2 and 3 were well characterized spectroscopically and by single‐crystal X‐ray diffraction studies. Experimental and computational studies support the cumulenic closed‐shell singlet state of 3 with a singlet‐triplet energy gap (ΔES–T) of 23.7 kcal mol−1.
The past few decades
have seen remarkable headways in the structural
and reaction chemistry of compounds with heavier main-group elements.
In recent years, there is an ongoing effort to derive catalytic chemistry
involving main-group compounds, driven by their lower costs and higher
terrestrial abundances. Here, a survey on the state-of-the-art in
the development of cyanosilylation methodology by compounds with heavier
main-group elements has been given. Once dominated by transition metals,
the field has matured to embrace the majority of the main-group elements
including aluminum, silicon, and calcium. Of particular focus will
be how the mechanism of cyanosilylation involving compounds with main-group
elements differs from those of transition metals.
The reaction of SIPr, [1,3‐bis(2,6‐diisopropylphenyl)‐imidazolin‐2‐ylidene] (1), with C6F6 led to the formation of an unprecedented mesoionic compound (2). The formation of 2 is made accessible by deprotonation of the SIPr backbone with simultaneous elimination of HF. The C−F bond para to the imidazolium ring in 2 is only of 1.258(4) Å, which is the one of the shortest structurally authenticated C−F bonds known to date. The liberation of HF during the reaction is unequivocally proved by the addition of one more equivalent of SIPr, which leads to the imidazolium salt with the HF2− anion. To functionalize 2, the latter reacted with B(C6F5)3 to give an unusual donor–acceptor compound, where the fluoride atom from the C6F5 moiety coordinates to B(C6F5)3 and the carbanion moiety remains unaffected. Such coordination susceptibility of the fluoride atom of a nonmetallic system to a main‐group Lewis acid (Fnon‐metal→BR3) is quite unprecedented.
In this paper, we have used a saturated five-membered N-Heterocyclic carbene (5SIDipp = 1,3-bis-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazolin-2-ylidine) for the synthesis of SNHC-haloboranes adducts and their further nucleophilic substitutions to put unusual functional groups at the central boron atom. The reaction of 5-SIDipp with RBCl2 yields Lewis-base adducts, 5-SIDipp·RBCl2 [R = H (1), Ph (2)]. The hydrolysis of 1 gives the NHC stabilized boric acid, 5-SIDipp·B(OH)3 (3), selectively. Replacement of chlorine atoms from 1 and 2 with one equivalent of AgOTf led to the formation of 5-SIDipp·HBCl(OTf) (4) and 5-SIDipp·PhBCl(OTf) (5a), where all the substituents on the boron atoms are different. The addition of two equivalents of AgNO3 to 2 leads to the formation of rare di-nitro substituted 5-SIDipp·BPh(NO3)2 (6). Further, the reaction of 5-SIDipp with B(C6F5)3 in tetrahydrofuran and diethyl ether shows a frustrated Lewis pair type small molecule activated products, 7 and 8.
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