title: Reduction of a diamidocarbene-supported borenium cation: isolation of a neutral boryl-substituted radical and a carbene-stabilized aminoborylene.
abstract: We have synthesized the first diamidocarbene (DAC)-supported borenium salt, [][OTf], which was found to readily undergo two sequential 1-electron reductions. The first reduction forms a thermally robust, crystalline boryl-substituted DAC-centred radical () which has been fully characterized by XRD, EPR spectroscopy, and DFT analyses. The 1-electron reduction of resulted in the formation of a DAC-supported aminoborylene, , which has been characterized computationally and by multinuclear NMR spectroscopy.
authors: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA. hudnall@txstate.edu.
authors: Anthony D
authors: AD
authors: Ledet
authors: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA. hudnall@txstate.edu.
authors: Todd W
authors: TW
authors: Hudnall