title: 1,1/1,2 Isomerisation in Lewis base adducts of B2cat2.
abstract: Reaction of bis-catecholatodiborane and 1 or 2 equivalents of 1,5-diazabicyclo[4.3.0]non-5-ene or 4-picoline yields Lewis acid-base adducts. Recrystallisation enabled identification of an unexpected isomerisation from the 1,1-isomer to the 1,2-isomer. This observation was probed computationally with significantly different dipole moments calculated for the two effectively isoenergetic isomeric forms.
authors: School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK. michael.ingleson@manchester.ac.uk.
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