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 …

Utilization of CO2 for the synthesis of fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals has attracted
tremendous attention. In fact, reductive transformation of CO2 is also an interesting …

IUPAC defines Lewis acidity as the thermodynamic tendency for Lewis pair formation. This
strength property was recently specified as global Lewis acidity (gLA), and is gauged for …

Organozinc compounds containing sp, sp2, and sp3 C–Zn moieties undergo transmetalation
with pinacolborane (HBPin) to produce Zn–H species and organoboronate esters (RBPin) …

Methanol has been widely used in organic synthesis and fuel fields. The capture and
selective reduction of CO2 to methanol can not only decrease CO2 concentrations but also …

During recent years, the catalytic transformation of CO2 using silicon‐hydrides as reductants
has emerged as a promising methodology that allows the selective reduction of CO2 to the …

Protonolysis of [ZnH2] n with the conjugated Brønsted acid of the bidentate diamine TMEDA
(N, N, N′, N′‐tetramethylethane‐1, 2‐diamine) and TEEDA (N, N, N′, N …

Catalytic hydrosilylation of carbon dioxide has emerged as a promising approach for carbon
dioxide utilization. It allows the reductive transformation of carbon dioxide into value‐added …

A fluorenyl‐tethered N‐heterocyclic carbene LH (LH=[(Flu) H−(CH2) 2− NHCDipp]) and its
monoanionic version L− are explored in complexation with zinc towards the hydroboration of …

[(NacNac) Zn (DMT)][B (C6F5) 4], 1,(NacNac={(2, 6-i Pr2H3C6) N (CH3) C} 2CH), DMT= N,
N-dimethyl-4-toluidine), was synthesized via two routes starting from either (NacNac) ZnEt or …