Catalytic dehydrocoupling of amine-borane and phosphine-borane adducts: the mechanism is heterogeneous in one case and homogeneous in the other.
The catalytic dehydrocoupling reactions of Me2NH.BH3 and Ph2PH.BH3 using the rhodium precatalyst [Rh(1,5-cod)(mu-Cl)]2 were found to proceed by different mechanisms: heterogeneous involving Rh(0) metal for the former case and homogeneous for the latter.
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Cory A
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Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 3H6.
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