Reaction of B2 (o -tol)4 with CO and Isocyanides: Cleavage of the C≡O Triple Bond and Direct C−H Borylations

Reactivity of highly Lewis acidic diborane(4) towards pyridine and isocyanide: formation of boraalkene–pyridine complex and ortho-functionalized pyridine derivatives

(2018) Yuhei Katsuma et al.   Chemical Science

Cleaving Dihydrogen with Tetra(o-tolyl)diborane(4)

(2017) Nana Tsukahara et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Cooperative Trimerization of Carbon Monoxide by Lithium and Samarium Boryls

(2017) Baoli Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Triplet Energy and π-Conjugation Effects on Photoisomerization of Chiral N,C-Chelate Organoborons with PAH Substituents

(2017) Soren K. Mellerup et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Reactivity of Heavier Vinyl Anions [(CH3)2E═E′(CH3)]− (E, E′ = C, Si, Ge) toward Carbon Monoxide: A Computational Study

(2017) Cem B. Yildiz et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Azaborabutadienes: Synthesis by Metal-Free Carboboration of Nitriles and Utility as Building Blocks for B,N-Heterocycles

(2016) Lingbing Kong et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A Frustrated and Confused Lewis Pair

(2016) Alison C. McQuilken et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

New outcomes of Lewis base addition to diboranes(4): electronic effects override strong steric disincentives

(2016) Nicole Arnold et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

A Germylene/Borane Lewis Pair and the Remarkable C=O Bond Cleavage Reaction toward Isocyanate and Ketone Molecules

(2016) Jiancheng Li et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Unusual Reactivity of Sodium Tetramesityltetraphosphanediide towards Cyclohexyl Isocyanide

(2016) Anup K. Adhikari et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Direct and Base-Catalyzed Diboration of Alkynes Using the Unsymmetrical Diborane(4), pinB-BMes2

(2016) Chiemi Kojima et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Isolation of a Diborane(6) Dication: Formation and Cleavage of an Electron-Precise B(sp3)–B(sp3) Bond

(2016) Lingbing Kong et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Isolation of 1,2,4,3-Triazaborol-3-yl-metal (Li, Mg, Al, Au, Zn, Sb, Bi) Derivatives and Reactivity toward CO and Isonitriles

(2016) Wei Lu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Ring Contraction of a Pinacolatoboryl Group To Form a 1,2-Oxaboretane Ring: Reaction of Unsymmetrical Diborane(4) with 2,6-Dimethylphenyl Isocyanide

(2016) Yuhei Katsuma et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Reductive Cleavage of Carbon Monoxide by a Disilenide

(2015) Moumita Majumdar et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Complete reductive cleavage of CO facilitated by highly electrophilic borocations

(2015) Liam D. Curless et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Frustrated Lewis pair behavior of monomeric (boryl)iminomethanes accessed from isocyanide 1,1-hydroboration

(2015) Brandon R. Barnett et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Metal-Mediated and Metal-Catalyzed Reactions of Isocyanides

(2015) Vadim P. Boyarskiy et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Lowering the Reduction Potential of a Boron Compound by Means of the Substituent Effect of the Boryl Group: One-Electron Reduction of an Unsymmetrical Diborane(4)

(2015) Hiroki Asakawa et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Multiple complexation of CO and related ligands to a main-group element

(2015) Holger Braunschweig et al.   NATURE

A Multiply Functionalized Base-Coordinated GeIICompound and Its Reversible Dimerization to the Digermene

(2014) Anukul Jana et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Reversible Photochemical and Thermal Isomerization of Azaboratabisnorcaradiene to Azaborabenzotropilidene

(2014) Ying-Li Rao et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Facile scission of isonitrile carbon–nitrogen triple bond using a diborane(4) reagent

(2014) Hiroki Asakawa et al.   Nature Communications

Scope and Post-Transformations for the Borane-Isocyanide Multicomponent Reactions: Concise Access to Structurally Diverse Heterocyclic Compounds

(2013) Nicola Kielland et al.   ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS

Facile Carbon Monoxide Reduction at Intramolecular Frustrated Phosphane/Borane Lewis Pair Templates

(2013) Muhammad Sajid et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Formylborane Formation with Frustrated Lewis Pair Templates

(2013) Muhammad Sajid et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Carbonylation of Cyclotrisilenes

(2013) Michael J. Cowley et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Synthesis of a bicyclic diborane by selective boron carbon bond formation

(2013) Holger Braunschweig et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Recent advances in isocyanide insertion chemistry

(2013) Guanyinsheng Qiu et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Mechanisms of Reactions of Open-Shell, Heavier Group 14 Derivatives with Small Molecules: n−π* Back-Bonding in Isocyanide Complexes, C–H Activation under Ambient Conditions, CO Coupling, and Ancillary Molecular Interactions†This Award Article summarizes, including more recent results, one of the themes of a lecture presented on March 26th, 2012, at the 243rd Chemical Society National Meeting American in San Diego, CA, in receipt of the 2012 Award in Organometallic Chemistry sponsored by the Dow Corporation.

(2013) Zachary D. Brown et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Photo- and Thermal-Induced Multistructural Transformation of 2-Phenylazolyl Chelate Boron Compounds

(2013) Ying-Li Rao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Carbonylation Reactions of Intramolecular Vicinal Frustrated Phosphane/Borane Lewis Pairs

(2013) Muhammad Sajid et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Stoichiometric Metal-Free Reduction of CO in Syn-Gas

(2013) Roman Dobrovetsky et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Quaternizing Diboranes(4): Highly Divergent Outcomes and an Inorganic Wagner–Meerwein Rearrangement

(2013) Holger Braunschweig et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Metal-free binding and coupling of carbon monoxide at a boron–boron triple bond

(2013) Holger Braunschweig et al.   Nature Chemistry

Reaction of Unsaturated Vicinal Phosphane/Borane Frustrated Lewis Pairs with Benzaldehyde

(2013) Olga Ekkert et al.   ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ANORGANISCHE UND ALLGEMEINE CHEMIE

Remarkable coordination behavior of alkyl isocyanides toward unsaturated vicinal frustrated P/B Lewis pairs

(2013) Olga Ekkert et al.   Chemical Science

Stepwise Intramolecular Photoisomerization of NHC-Chelate Dimesitylboron Compounds with C–C Bond Formation and C–H Bond Insertion

(2012) Ying-Li Rao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of 1JCC and nJCC Coupling Constants in Strychnine

(2012) R. Thomas Williamson et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Reaction of pentaarylboroles with carbon monoxide: an isolable organoboron carbonyl complex

(2012) Aiko Fukazawa et al.   Chemical Science

Photochromic four-coordinate N,C-chelate boron compounds

(2011) Ying-Li Rao et al.   COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS

Photoisomerization of 1-Phenyl-2-(pyridin-2-yl)indole BMes2: The Dark Isomer

(2011) Hazem Amarne et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Cyclodimerization of an Oxoboryl Complex Induced bytransLigand Abstraction

(2010) Holger Braunschweig et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Steric and Electronic Influence on Photochromic Switching of N,C-Chelate Four-Coordinate Organoboron Compounds

(2010) Hazem Amarne et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

1,1-Diboration of Isocyanides with [2]Borametalloarenophanes

(2010) Florian Bauer et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Oxoboryl Complexes: Boron-Oxygen Triple Bonds Stabilized in the Coordination Sphere of Platinum

(2010) H. Braunschweig et al.   SCIENCE

C−H Activation for the Construction of C−B Bonds

(2009) Ibraheem A. I. Mkhalid et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Room-Temperature Reaction of Carbon Monoxide with a Stable Diarylgermylene

(2009) Xinping Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

13C−1H and13C−13C NMRJ-Couplings in13C-LabeledN-Acetyl-neuraminic Acid: Correlations with Molecular Structure

(2008) Thomas Klepach et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Reversible Intramolecular C−C Bond Formation/Breaking and Color Switching Mediated by a N,C-Chelate in (2-ph-py)BMes2and (5-BMes2-2-ph-py)BMes2

(2008) Ying-Li Rao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Reaction of carbon monoxide with tri-tert-butylgallium: The first example of CO insertion into a gallium–carbon bond

(2007) Mark R. Mason et al.   INORGANICA CHIMICA ACTA