Lewis superacids: classifications, candidates, and applications

L Greb - Chemistry–A European Journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Lewis acids play a major role in all areas of chemistry. For a long time, toxic, corrosive and
oxidizing SbF5 was considered as the strongest Lewis acid known. Lately, species …

Halogenated triarylboranes: synthesis, properties and applications in catalysis

JL Carden, A Dasgupta, RL Melen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Halogenated triarylboranes (BAr3) have been known for decades, however it has only been
since the surge of interest in main group catalysis that their application as strong Lewis acid …

Tris(ortho‐carboranyl)borane: An Isolable, Halogen‐Free, Lewis Superacid

MO Akram, JR Tidwell, JL Dutton… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The synthesis of tris (ortho‐carboranyl) borane (BoCb3), a single site neutral Lewis
superacid, in one pot from commercially available materials is achieved. The high fluoride …

“Frustrated Lewis pairs”: a concept for new reactivity and catalysis

DW Stephan - Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 2008 - pubs.rsc.org
“Frustrated Lewis pairs”: a concept for new reactivity and catalysis - Organic & Biomolecular
Chemistry (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/B802575B Royal Society of Chemistry View PDF …

Synthesis, characterization, and density functional theory studies of three-dimensional inorganic analogues of 9, 10-diboraanthracene—a new class of Lewis …

C Zhang, J Wang, W Su, Z Lin, Q Ye - Journal of the American …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The three-dimensional inorganic analogues of 9, 10-diboraanthracene, B2X2 (C2B10H10) 2
(X= Cl, 1; X= Br, 2), were attained by salt elimination of Li2C2B10H10 and trihaloboranes …

Nuclearity and cooperativity effects in binuclear catalysts and cocatalysts for olefin polymerization

H Li, TJ Marks - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
A series of bimetallic organo-group 4 “constrained geometry” catalysts and binuclear
bisborane and bisborate cocatalysts have been synthesized to probe catalyst center …

Tuning Lewis acidity using the reactivity of “frustrated Lewis pairs”: facile formation of phosphine-boranes and cationic phosphonium-boranes

GC Welch, L Cabrera, PA Chase, E Hollink… - Dalton …, 2007 - pubs.rsc.org
The concept of “frustrated Lewis pairs” involves donor and acceptor sites in which steric
congestion precludes Lewis acid–base adduct formation. In the case of sterically demanding …

An orbitally adapted push–pull template for N 2 activation and reduction to diazene-diide

D Specklin, MC Boegli, A Coffinet, L Escomel… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
A Lewis superacidic bis (borane) C6F4 {B (C6F5) 2} 2 was reacted with tungsten N2-
complexes [W (N2) 2 (R2PCH2CH2PR2) 2](R= Ph or Et), affording zwitterionic …

Univalent gallium salts of weakly coordinating anions: effective initiators/catalysts for the synthesis of highly reactive polyisobutylene

MR Lichtenthaler, A Higelin, A Kraft, S Hughes… - …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The scope of the univalent gallium salts [Ga (C6H5F) 2]+[Al (ORF) 4]− and the new
completely characterized [Ga (1, 3, 5-Me3C6H3) 2]+[Al (ORF) 4]−(RF= C (CF3) 3) was …

High‐Nuclearity Silver Thiolate Clusters Constructed with Phosphonates

YP Xie, JL Jin, X Lu, TCW Mak - … Chemie International Edition, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The n‐butylphosphonate ligand has been employed to construct three new silver (I) thiolate
compounds. Single‐crystal X‐ray analysis revealed that complexes 1 and 2 are Ag48 and …