Preorganized frustrated Lewis pairs

F Bertini, V Lyaskovskyy, BJJ Timmer… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Geminal frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) are expected to exhibit increased reactivity when the
donor and acceptor sites are perfectly aligned. This is shown for reactions of the …

A geminal antimony (iii)/phosphorus (iii) frustrated Lewis pair

J Krieft, PC Trapp, YV Vishnevskiy, B Neumann… - Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The geminal Lewis pair (F5C2) 2SbCH2P (tBu) 2 (1) was prepared by reacting (F5C2)
2SbCl with LiCH2P (tBu) 2. Despite its extremely electronegative pentafluoroethyl …

Intermolecular hydroacylation: High activity rhodium catalysts containing small-bite-angle diphosphine ligands

AB Chaplin, JF Hooper, AS Weller… - Journal of the American …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Readily prepared and bench-stable rhodium complexes containing methylene bridged
diphosphine ligands, viz.[Rh (C6H5F)(R2PCH2PR′ 2)][BArF4](R, R′= tBu or Cy; ArF …

A neutral silicon/phosphorus frustrated Lewis pair

B Waerder, M Pieper, LA Körte… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) have a great potential for activation of small
molecules. Most known FLP systems are based on boron or aluminum atoms as acid …

Catalytic applications of small bite-angle diphosphorus ligands with single-atom linkers

SM Mansell - Dalton Transactions, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Diphosphorus ligands connected by a single atom (R2PEPR2; E= CR2, CCR2 and NR) give
chelating ligands with very small bite-angles (natural bite-angle of 72° for dppm) as well as …

Accessing the main-group metal formyl scaffold through CO-activation in beryllium hydride complexes

TJ Hadlington, T Szilvási - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Carbon monoxide (CO) is an indispensable C1 building block. For decades this abundant
gas has been employed in hydroformylation and Pausen-Khand catalysis, amongst many …

A neutral germanium/phosphorus frustrated Lewis pair and its contrasting reactivity compared to its silicon analogue

TA Kinder, R Pior, S Blomeyer… - … A European Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Chlorogermane (C2F5) 3GeCl with very electronegative pentafluoroethyl groups
was converted with LiCH2P (tBu) 2 to obtain the intramolecular frustrated Lewis pair …

Carbon–carbon bond construction using boronic acids and aryl methyl sulfides: orthogonal reactivity in Suzuki-type couplings

JF Hooper, RD Young, I Pernik, AS Weller… - Chemical …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The Rh (I)-catalysed coupling of aryl and alkenyl boronic acids with simple aryl and alkenyl
methyl sulfides is reported. The process employs bench-stable Rh (I) precatalysts …

A highly reactive geminal P/B frustrated Lewis pair: expanding the scope to C− X (X= Cl, Br) bond activation

K Samigullin, I Georg, M Bolte… - … A European Journal, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The geminal frustrated Lewis pair tBu2PCH2B (Fxyl) 2 (1; Fxyl= 3, 5‐(CF3) 2C6H3) is
accessible in 65% yield from tBu2PCH2Li and (Fxyl) 2BF. According to NMR spectroscopy …

Reactivity of Dimeric P/Al-Based Lewis Pairs toward Carbon Dioxide and tert-Butyl Isocyanate

F Bertini, F Hoffmann, C Appelt, W Uhl… - …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The methylene-bridged phosphinoalane t Bu2PCH2AlMe2 exists as a stable, dimeric Lewis
adduct, which reacts with carbon dioxide and tert-butyl isocyanate at room temperature …