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Post-Assembly Reactivity of N-Aryl Iminoboronates: Reversible Radical Coupling and Unusual B-N Dynamic Covalent Chemistry.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Keyzer, Evan N 
Sava, Alexandru 
Ronson, Tanya K 
Nitschke, Jonathan R 

Abstract

Post-assembly reaction of a dynamic covalent iminoboronate system following addition of Cp2 Co resulted in the formation of a series of new reductively coupled dianionic dimers via C-C bond formation. The dimers formed as a mixture of BN-containing isomeric products: diastereomers rac5 and meso5, with coupled five-membered rings, and enantiomeric rac6, with a fused six-membered ring bicyclic system from C-C bond formation and rearrangement of the B-N bonds. Each isomer was identified using 1 H NMR spectroscopy in combination with single crystal X-ray structure determination. Interestingly, interconversion between the coupled five-membered rings (rac5 ) and fused bicyclic systems (rac6 ) was found to occur through an unprecedented breaking and reforming of the B-N covalent bond. Further, the coupled products could be converted quantitatively back to their iminoboronate precursors with addition of the electron abstractor Ph3 C+ .

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Keywords

dynamic covalent chemistry, iminoboronate, post-assembly, radical coupling, supramolecular chemistry

Journal Title

Chemistry

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Journal ISSN

0947-6539
1521-3765

Volume Title

24

Publisher

Wiley
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/M01083X/1)
European Research Council (695009)
European Research Council (695009) EPSRC (EP/M01083X/1)