The scientific community has witnessed extensive developments and applications of
organoboron compounds as synthetic elements and metal-free catalysts for the construction …

This review discusses the immense progress made over recent years in metal‐free catalytic
hydroboration. Reactions with several unsaturated functional groups, such as alkynes …

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 …

Sterically hindered Lewis acid and base centers are unable to form Lewis adducts, instead
forming frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs), where latent reactivity can be utilized for the activation …

The Lewis acidity of primary, secondary, and tertiary boranes with phenyl,
pentafluorophenyl, and all three isomers of the C-substituted icosahedral carboranes (ortho …

Strong Lewis acids are essential tools for manifold chemical procedures, but their scalable
deployment is limited by their costs and safety concerns. We report a scalable, convenient …

Abstract The Lewis superacid, bis (1‐methyl‐ortho‐carboranyl) borane, is rapidly accessed
in two steps. It is a very effective hydroboration reagent capable of B− H addition to alkenes …

Boroles and borapyramidanes are classical and nonclassical constitutional isomers,
respectively. It is here shown that they can indeed be interconverted. Treatment of the bis …

Herein, we report a one-pot synthesis of styrene derivatives via a novel B (C6F5) 3-
catalyzed E-selective isomerization of readily accessible allyl silanes and subsequent …

Development of metal-free strategies for stereoselective hydrogenation of unsaturated
substrates is of particular interest in asymmetric synthesis. The emerging chemistry of …