title: Homogeneous, titanocene-catalyzed dehydrocoupling of amine-borane adducts.
abstract: Transition metal catalysis represents a relatively unexplored but potentially useful route to form bonds between main group elements. Previous work in the area of amine-borane adduct dehydrocoupling has exclusively employed late transition metal (e.g., Rh) catalysts which were found to predominantly operate via a heterogeneous mechanism. Herein, we present a new, early transition-metal-catalyzed, homogeneous system which exhibits higher activity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 3H6.
authors.forename: Timothy J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Clark
authors.forename: Christopher A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Russell
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Manners