Dehydrogenation of amine-boranes with a frustrated Lewis pair.
Bulky tertiary phosphine/borane Lewis pairs P(t)Bu(3)/B(C(6)F(5))(3) react with amine-boranes to afford dehydrocoupling products and phosphonium borohydride salts.
Miller
Alexander J M
AJ
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Laboratories of Chemical Synthesis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. ajmiller@caltech.edu
Bercaw
John E
JE