Fully Borylated Methane and Ethane by Ruthenium‐Mediated Cleavage and Coupling of CO |
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| Authors: | Dr Andrei S Batsanov Prof?Dr Javier A Cabeza Dr Marco G Crestani Dr Manuel R Fructos Dr Pablo García‐Álvarez Dr Marie Gille Prof Zhenyang Lin Prof?Dr Todd B Marder |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Chemistry, Durham University, Durham, UK;2. Departamento de Química Orgánica e Inorgánica-IUQOEM, Centro de Innovación en Química Avanzada (ORFEO-CINQA), Universidad de Oviedo-CSIC, Oviedo, Spain;3. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, P.R. China;4. Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Julius-Maximilians-Universit?t Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany |
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| Abstract: | Many transition‐metal complexes and some metal‐free compounds are able to bind carbon monoxide, a molecule which has the strongest chemical bond in nature. However, very few of them have been shown to induce the cleavage of its C?O bond and even fewer are those that are able to transform CO into organic reagents with potential in organic synthesis. This work shows that bis(pinacolato)diboron, B2pin2, reacts with ruthenium carbonyl to give metallic complexes containing borylmethylidyne (CBpin) and diborylethyne (pinBC≡CBpin) ligands and also metal‐free perborylated C1 and C2 products, such as C(Bpin)4 and C2(Bpin)6, respectively, which have great potential as building blocks for Suzuki–Miyaura cross‐coupling and other reactions. The use of 13CO‐enriched ruthenium carbonyl has demonstrated that the boron‐bound carbon atoms of all of these reaction products arise from CO ligands. |
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| Keywords: | boron borylation carbon monoxide cluster compounds ruthenium |
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