Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Jinbiao Jia, Jia Dong, Beibei Shi, Jihuai Wu, Yangqing Wu, Bingqiang Cao
Summary: Passivating defects to suppress recombination is an effective strategy to improve the performance of third-generation perovskite-based solar cells. The incorporation of tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane in SnO2-based planar perovskite solar cells effectively passivates Pb-0 defects, decreases grain boundaries quantity, enhances carrier transportation capability, and leads to a higher efficiency of 21.42%. Furthermore, the stability tests demonstrate that incorporating tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane in perovskite solar cells contributes to the device's stability.
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Masatoshi Shibuya, Miki Matsuda, Yoshihiko Yamamoto
Summary: The study presents a novel single-step 1,2-dicarbofunctionalization method involving arylacetylene with an allylsilane and tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane [B(C6F5)(3)], leading to the formation of tetrafluoronaphthalenes. The unique reactivity of B(C6F5)(3) enables smooth reaction progress and can also result in ring opening in reactions with 2-substituted furan.
CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
(2021)
Review
Chemistry, Organic
Gautam Kumar, Sourav Roy, Indranil Chatterjee
Summary: Tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane (BCF) has gained significant attention in the synthetic chemistry community as a potential Lewis acid catalyst due to its thermal stability and commercial availability. Recent research has focused on exploring BCF's role in metal-free catalysis, with many new catalytic reactivities under investigation. The review mainly categorizes different types of organic transformations mediated through BCF catalysis for the formation of C-C and C-heteroatom bonds.
ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Gengshu You, Le Liu, Jin Wang, Min Zhao, Chengjie Zhao, Xu Cai, Jin Tang, Fushen Lu, Tonggang Jiu
Summary: Polythiophene-acid-based conjugated polyelectrolytes have shown promising potential as hole-transport materials for inverted planar perovskite devices. A simple and effective strategy involving tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane as a Lewis acid has been developed to regulate the aggregation of the polyelectrolytes, leading to improved efficiency of perovskite solar cells.
ADVANCED SUSTAINABLE SYSTEMS
(2021)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Slawomir Rubinsztajn, Julian Chojnowski, Urszula Mizerska
Summary: Tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane (TPFPB) is a unique Lewis acid that enables the condensation between hydrosilanes (Si-H) and alkoxysilanes (Si-OR) to form siloxane bonds (Si-OSi) in the presence of TPFPB, resulting in the release of hydrocarbon (R-H) as a byproduct, known as the Piers-Rubinsztajn reaction. TPFPB also catalyzes reactions involving hydrosilanes with silanols (Si-OH), alcohols (R-OH), ethers (R-OR') or water to form siloxane bonds, alkoxysilane (Si-OR or Si-OR') or silanol (Si-OH), respectively. These Piers-Rubinsztajn reactions provide new synthetic tools for the controlled synthesis of siloxane materials under mild conditions with high yields. This review summarizes 20 years of research efforts in this field, highlights new synthetic methodologies for well-defined siloxane oligomers, polymers, and copolymers, and discusses the potential applications of these new materials. Furthermore, the mechanistic aspects of recently discovered reactions involving hydride transfer from silicon to silicon are also discussed in detail.
Article
Chemistry, Organic
Sai-Ya Lian, Ning Li, Yin Tian, Cheng Peng, Ming-Sheng Xie, Hai-Ming Guo
Summary: This study reports a desymmetrization reaction of meso-vic-diols with a reversal of enantioselectivity catalyzed by chiral pyridine-N-oxides with l-proline as a single source of chirality. The reaction achieved a complete and controlled switch in stereoselectivity, and chiral six-membered carbocyclic uracil nucleosides were generated with excellent enantioselectivities. Through control experiments and density functional theory calculations, it was confirmed that the reaction proceeded in a bifunctional activated manner, and the distance-directed switching of enantioselectivity played a vital role.
JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Organic
Anand Gaurav, Zanjila Azeem, Pintu Kumar Mandal
Summary: This study presents an efficient and highly stereoselective alpha-C-glycosylation strategy using a catalytic amount of BCF under mild reaction conditions, which provides 2,3-unsaturated C-glycosides with broad functional group tolerance.
SYNTHESIS-STUTTGART
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Pushbaraj Palani, Ajithkumar Arumugam, Dineshkumar Raja, Kesavan Muthu, Gopal Chandru Senadi
Summary: A mild and inexpensive approach using fluorescein as a photocatalyst and air as an oxidant has been developed for the synthesis of a series of 1,4-diketones in moderate to excellent yields through 1,2-oxo alkylation. The key features include varied substrate scope (39 examples), good functional group tolerance, unsymmetrical 1,4-dicarbonyls, late-stage functionalization of thymol and ibuprofen derivatives, and the synthetic expansion to 5- and 6-membered N-, O-, and S-containing heterocycles.
CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Pushbaraj Palani, Ajithkumar Arumugam, Dineshkumar Raja, Kesavan Muthu, Gopal Chandru Senadi
Summary: A mild and inexpensive approach to synthesizing a series of 1,4-diketones in moderate to excellent yields via 1,2-oxo alkylation has been developed using fluorescein as a photocatalyst and air as an oxidant. The key features of this method include a wide range of substrate scope, good functional group tolerance, the synthesis of unsymmetrical 1,4-dicarbonyls, late-stage functionalization of thymol and ibuprofen derivatives, as well as the expansion to N-, O-, and S-containing heterocycles with 5- and 6-members.
CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jillian S. K. Clark, Michael J. Ferguson, Robert McDonald, Mark Stradiotto
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2019)
Article
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Emanuel Hupf, Felix Kaiser, Paul A. Lummis, Matthew M. D. Roy, Robert McDonald, Michael J. Ferguson, Fritz E. Kuehn, Eric Rivard
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(2020)
Article
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Jingwei Li, Jianguo Zhao, Guibin Ma, Robert McDonald, Ronald G. Cavell
JOURNAL OF ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY
(2019)
Article
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Jin Yang, Sophie Langis-Barsetti, Hayley C. Parkin, Robert McDonald, Lisa Rosenberg
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Baker Jawabrah Al-Hourani, Musa El-Barghouthi, Wajdy Al-Awaida, Robert McDonald, Isam A. Fattash, Fatima El Soubani, Khalid Matalka, Frank Wuest
JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURE
(2020)
Article
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Jocelyn Sinclair, Guoliang Dai, Robert McDonald, Michael J. Ferguson, Alex Brown, Eric Rivard
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(2020)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Roman G. Belli, Dimitrios A. Pantazis, Robert McDonald, Lisa Rosenberg
Summary: The study shows that a new Lewis superacid plays a key role in the electrophilic Si-H abstraction process of silanes and can act as a catalyst or initiator in catalytic reactions. By investigating the equilibrium between different adducts, the mechanism of its dominance in the catalytic hydrosilylation reaction is revealed.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Phil Liebing, Nicole Harmgarth, Yi Yang, Robert McDonald, Felix Engelhardt, Marcel Kuhling, Frank T. Edelmann, Josef Takats
Summary: The synthesis and structural characterization of Ae(Tp(iPr2))(2) compounds (Ae = Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba) are reported, revealing significant structural variations compared to analogous Ln(Tp(iPr2))(2) compounds. Despite the structural differences, a linear size-dependence is observed for the bending angle between the B and metal ion for divalent metal ions from Mg2+ to Sm2+. The coordination geometry of the largest metal ion, Ba2+, differs from a linear metallocene-like structure due to significant tipping of the pyrazolyl groups towards the metal center.
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Helia Hollenhorst, Robert McDonald, Michael Ferguson, Laura Turculet
Summary: The synthesis of five-coordinate amido hydride PSiP pincer complexes of both Rh-III and Ir-III was achieved using salt metathesis and N-H oxidative addition methods. Rare examples of thermally robust Ir alkylamido hydride complexes were discovered in the process.
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Roman G. Belli, Jin Yang, Erick Nunez Bahena, Robert McDonald, Lisa Rosenberg
Summary: This study provides a thorough experimental examination of the mechanisms involved in the catalytic hydrophosphination reaction using a series of half-sandwich Ru indenyl complexes. The results highlight the importance of ancillary ligands in the design of active and robust catalysts for this reaction, and reveal the complexity that can arise from simple mechanistic premises.
Article
Chemistry, Organic
Zachary W. Schroeder, Robert McDonald, Michael J. Ferguson, Wesley A. Chalifoux, Rik R. Tykwinski, Dan Lehnherr
Summary: A general method for the synthesis of ethynylated pentacene ketones is reported, and key noncovalent interactions contributing to their crystallization are revealed by X-ray crystallography.
JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Raed M. Al-Zoubi, Walid K. Al-Jammal, Mazhar S. Al-Zoubi, Robert McDonald, Ahmad Zarour, Aksam Yassin, Abdulla Al-Ansari
Summary: An efficient and highly selective method for synthesizing 2,3-diiodinated N-aryl carbamate derivatives has been described in this study, with high yields and applicability to various functional groups.
NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Peter T. K. Lee, Kerim Samedov, Roman G. Belli, C. Jonathan Clarke, Derek P. Gates, Lisa Rosenberg
CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS
(2020)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Raed M. Al-Zoubi, Walid K. Al-Jammal, Robert McDonald
NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
(2020)