Conjugated enynes are of great importance in organic synthesis, biochemistry and materials
sciences. The most commonly used synthetic methods include cross coupling reactions and …

Allenes have proven themselves to be valuable building blocks toward complex molecular
targets, revealing novel applications in natural product synthesis, pharmaceutical chemistry …

Frustrated Lewis pairs are compounds containing both Lewis acidic and Lewis basic
moieties, where the formation of an adduct is prevented by steric hindrance. They are …

Bond activation and catalysis are central to the development of a sustainable energy system.
Frustrated Lewis Pairs have conceptually revolutionized the activation of inert chemical …

Classical and frustrated Lewis pairs (LPs) of the strong Lewis acid (LA) Al (C6F5) 3 with
several Lewis base (LB) classes have been found to exhibit exceptional activity in the Lewis …

Intramolecular vicinal and geminal frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) featuring bulky substituents
at phosphorus or nitrogen and strongly electron-withdrawing bulky pentafluorophenyl …

The frustrated Lewis pair tBu3P/B (C6F5) 3 (1) readily adds SO2 to yield the zwitterionic
adduct tBu3P+–S (O)–OB−(C6F5) 3 (3). A series of intramolecular vicinal P/B FLPs Mes2P …

Using stabilized “soft” nucleophiles in copper-catalyzed allylic substitutions is highly
desirable but remains an unsolved challenge for the last 40 years. In this work, a general …

Deprotonation of terminal alkynes is effected by the treatment with t Bu3P and B (C6F5) 3 to
give [t Bu3PH][PhCCB (C6F5) 3](1a) and [t Bu3PH][RCCB (C6F5) 3](R= n Bu 2, t Bu 3 …

Frustrated, but not frustrating: Frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) can undergo selective 1, 4‐
addition reactions with conjugated ynones (see scheme). Upon FLP dihydrogen activation …