Main group metal-ligand cooperation of N-heterocyclic germylene: an efficient catalyst for hydroboration of carbonyl compounds.
N-heterocyclic ylide-like germylene effectively promotes the hydroboration of aldehydes and ketones under mild conditions with broad substrate tolerance, operational simplicity of procedure and excellent yields. A key intermediate in this catalytic system featuring a bicyclo[2,2,2]octane-like core has been successfully isolated and characterized, suggesting a new type of mechanism that involves the activation mode that mimics that of transition metal catalysts.
Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory for Chemical Biology of Fujian Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China. ylwu@stu.xmu.edu.cn liuleo.liu@utoronto.ca yfzhao@xmu.edu.cn.
Yile
Y
Wu
Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory for Chemical Biology of Fujian Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China. ylwu@stu.xmu.edu.cn liuleo.liu@utoronto.ca yfzhao@xmu.edu.cn.
Changkai
C
Shan
Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory for Chemical Biology of Fujian Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China. ylwu@stu.xmu.edu.cn liuleo.liu@utoronto.ca yfzhao@xmu.edu.cn.
Ying
Y
Sun
Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory for Chemical Biology of Fujian Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China. ylwu@stu.xmu.edu.cn liuleo.liu@utoronto.ca yfzhao@xmu.edu.cn.
Peng
P
Chen
Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory for Chemical Biology of Fujian Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China. ylwu@stu.xmu.edu.cn liuleo.liu@utoronto.ca yfzhao@xmu.edu.cn.
Jianxi
J
Ying
State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces and Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China.
Jun
J
Zhu
Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory for Chemical Biology of Fujian Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China. ylwu@stu.xmu.edu.cn liuleo.liu@utoronto.ca yfzhao@xmu.edu.cn.
Liu Leo
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4934-0367
LL
Liu
Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory for Chemical Biology of Fujian Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, Fujian, China. ylwu@stu.xmu.edu.cn liuleo.liu@utoronto.ca yfzhao@xmu.edu.cn and Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorus Chemistry and Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education), Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China.
Yufen
Y
Zhao