We recently prepared a family of structurally tunable boron complexes supported by N-heterocyclic imine ligands IPr=N-BR2 (IPr = [(HCNDipp)2C]; Dipp = 2,6-iPr2C6H3; R = Cl and/or Ph) that have the ability to abstract dihydrogen from amine-boranes, and instigate their dehydrocoupling. By the judicious choice of side groups at boron, we were able to develop a rare example of a main group element compound that can catalytically promote the dehydrocoupling of amine-boranes to yield inorganic polymers with B-N backbones.

Metal-free dehydrogenation of amine-boranes by tunable N-heterocyclic iminoboranes

251st National Meeting (2016)

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