The broadening reach of frustrated Lewis pair chemistry

DW Stephan - Science, 2016 - science.org
BACKGROUND Since the work of Sabatier 100 year ago, chemists have turned almost
exclusively to metals to activate H2 by weakening or cleaving its central bond. This …

Frustrated Lewis pair chemistry: development and perspectives

DW Stephan, G Erker - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) are combinations of Lewis acids and Lewis bases in
solution that are deterred from strong adduct formation by steric and/or electronic factors …

Diverse uses of the reaction of frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) with hydrogen

DW Stephan - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021 - ACS Publications
The articulation of the notion of “frustrated Lewis pairs”(FLPs) emerged from the discovery
that H2 can be reversibly activated by combinations of sterically encumbered main group …

FLP catalysis: main group hydrogenations of organic unsaturated substrates

J Lam, KM Szkop, E Mosaferi… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
This article is focused on recent developments in main group mediated hydrogenation
chemistry and catalysis using “frustrated Lewis pairs”(FLPs). The broading range of …

Frustrated lewis pairs

DW Stephan - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015 - ACS Publications
The articulation of the notion of “frustrated Lewis pairs”(FLPs), which emerged from the
discovery that H2 can be reversibly activated by combinations of sterically encumbered …

Frustrated Lewis pairs: from concept to catalysis

DW Stephan - Accounts of chemical research, 2015 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) chemistry has emerged in the past decade as a
strategy that enables main-group compounds to activate small molecules. This concept is …

Metallomimetic chemistry of boron

MA Légaré, C Pranckevicius, H Braunschweig - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
The study of main-group molecules that behave and react similarly to transition-metal (TM)
complexes has attracted significant interest in recent decades. Most notably, the attractive …

A unified survey of Si–H and H–H bond activation catalysed by electron-deficient boranes

M Oestreich, J Hermeke, J Mohr - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The bond activation chemistry of B (C6F5) 3 and related electron-deficient boranes is
currently experiencing a renaissance due to the fascinating development of frustrated Lewis …

Chemie frustrierter Lewis‐Paare: Entwicklung und Perspektiven

DW Stephan, G Erker - Angewandte Chemie, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Der Begriff “frustrierte Lewis‐Paare”(FLPs) bezeichnet Kombinationen von Lewis‐
Säuren und Lewis‐Basen in Lösung, die aufgrund sterischer oder elektronischer Faktoren …

Enabling catalytic ketone hydrogenation by frustrated Lewis pairs

T Mahdi, DW Stephan - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2014 - ACS Publications
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