Neutral nido-heteroboranes with non ionisable hydrogen as arenes in coordination.
Designed ligands have been synthesised to produce the first arene-like metallacarborane. For arene-like coordination the number of electronegative elements on the coordinating site must be kept to a minimum. Choosing ligands with bulky substituents on the heteroatom allows easy rearrangement and arene-like coordination. This is more hampered the higher the number of hetereoatoms to be re-located.
Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, Campus de la U.A.B., E-08193 Bellaterra, Spain.
Oscar
O
Tutusaus
Clara
C
Viñas
Raikko
R
Kivekäs
Reijo
R
Sillanpää
Francesc
F
Teixidor