Amino-borane oligomers bound to a Rh(I) metal fragment.
Coordination complexes of previously observed intermediates, H(3)B.NMe(2)BH(2).NMe(2)H and [H(2)BNMeH](3), in the transition metal catalysed dehydrocoupling of H(3)B.NMe(2)H and H(3)B.NMeH(2) have been isolated and structurally characterised using the [Rh{PR'(2)(eta(2)-C(5)H(7))}](+) fragment. Their onward reactivity shows that further dehydrogenation is not a simple intramolecular process.
Dallanegra
Romaeo
R
Department of Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKOX1 3QR.
Chaplin
Adrian B
AB
Tsim
Jennifer
J
Weller
Andrew S
AS