Small molecule activation by frustrated Lewis pairs

Alastair L. Travis; Samantha C. Binding; Hasna Zaher; Thomas A Q Arnold; Jean Charles Buffet; Dermot O'Hare

doi:10.1039/c2dt32525j

Small molecule activation by frustrated Lewis pairs

Alastair L. Travis, Samantha C. Binding, Hasna Zaher, Thomas A Q Arnold, Jean Charles Buffet, Dermot O'Hare^*

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Abstract

A series of frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) based on the Lewis acids tris(perchloroaryl)borane (BAr^Cl), and tris(2,2′, 2′′-perfluorobiphenyl)borane (PBB) and trialkylphosphines were prepared; their ability to effect the heterolytic cleavage of dihydrogen, insert carbon dioxide into the borohydride, and reduce the resulting formatoborate to methanol were studied. Additionally, the insertion of CO₂ into a B-OH bond is explored with the ultimate aim of developing a homogeneous, catalytic preparation of carbonates. The compound [PBB-OH][H-P(^tBu) ₃] was characterised by single crystal X-ray crystallography.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2431-2437
Number of pages	7
Journal	Dalton Transactions
Volume	42
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c2dt32525j
Publication status	Published - 21 Feb 2013

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