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Paramagnetic Titanium(III) and Zirconium(III) Metallocene complexes as precatalysts for the dehydrocoupling/dehydrogenation of Amine-Boranes

  • Holger Helten
  • , Barnali Dutta
  • , James R. Vance
  • , Matthew E. Sloan
  • , Mairi F. Haddow
  • , Stephen Sproules
  • , David Collison
  • , George R. Whittell
  • , C. Lloyd Jones Guy
  • , Ian Manners*
  • *Corresponding author for this work
    • University of Bristol
    • Rheinisch-Westfalische Technische Hocsachule Aachen

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    Abstract

    Complexes of Group 4 metallocenes in the +3 oxidation state and amidoborane or phosphidoborane function as efficient precatalysts for the dehydrocoupling/dehydrogenation of amine-boranes, such as Me 2NH·BH3 (see scheme). Such TiIII- amidoborane complexes are generated in [Cp2Ti]-catalyzed amine-borane dehydrocoupling reactions, for which diamagnetic MII and M IV species have been previously postulated as precatalysts and intermediates.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)437-440
    Number of pages4
    JournalAngewandte Chemie - International Edition
    Volume52
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2 Jan 2013

    Keywords

    • Amine-boranes
    • Dehydrogenation
    • Metallocenes
    • Phosphine-boranes
    • Transition metals

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