Taming the cationic beast: novel developments in the synthesis and application of weakly coordinating anions

IM Riddlestone, A Kraft, J Schaefer… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
This Review gives a comprehensive overview of the most topical weakly coordinating
anions (WCAs) and contains information on WCA design, stability, and applications. As an …

<?ACS-CT-START-Insert ?>Update 1 of: <?ACS-CT-END-Insert ?>Chemistry of the Carba-closo-dodecaborate(−) Anion, CB11H12

… <? ACS-CT-START-Insert?> Douvris<? ACS … - Chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Polyhedral boranes and carborane clusters are characterized by delocalized electron
deficient bonding, meaning that there are too few valence electrons for bonding to be …

Perhalogenated carba-closo-dodecaborate anions as ligand substituents: applications in gold catalysis.

V Lavallo, JH Wright, FS Tham… - Angewandte …, 2013 - search.ebscohost.com
The success of modern transition-metal catalysis is largely due to the availability of a diverse
range of ligand frameworks. One of the most universal aspects of ligand design is the …

Palladium-catalyzed selective five-fold cascade arylation of the 12-vertex monocarborane anion by B–H activation

F Lin, JL Yu, Y Shen, SQ Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
A series of cage penta-arylated carboranes have been synthesized by palladium-catalyzed
intermolecular coupling of the C-carboxylic acid of the monocarba-closo-dodecaborate …

C F Activation of Fluorobenzene by Silylium Carboranes: Evidence for Incipient Phenyl Cation Reactivity

S Duttwyler, C Douvris, NLP Fackler… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2010 - escholarship.org
Si (mply) rips it apart: CF activation of fluorobenzene has been achieved using the extremely
strong silyl Lewis acids [Et3Si (X)]+(X= PhF or Et3SiH) and [(2, 6-dixylyl-C6H 3) SiMe2]+ …

Synthesis and Properties of the Weakly Coordinating Anion [Me3NB12Cl11]

C Bolli, J Derendorf, C Jenne, H Scherer… - … A European Journal, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The weakly coordinating anion [Me3NB12Cl11]− has been prepared by a simple two‐step
procedure. The anion [Me3NB12Cl11]− is easily obtained in batches of up to 20 g by …

Highly efficient carborane-based activators for molecular olefin polymerization catalysts

SO Gunther, Q Lai, T Senecal, R Huacuja… - Acs …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Several ammonium carborane salts ([HNR3][HCB11X11], X= H, Me, Cl) were prepared and
evaluated as activators with bis-metallocene and constrained geometry precatalysts at 140 …

Exhaustive Chlorination of [B12H12]2− without Chlorine Gas and the Use of [B12Cl12]2− as a Supporting Anion in Catalytic Hydrodefluorination of Aliphatic C−F …

W Gu, OV Ozerov - Inorganic Chemistry, 2011 - ACS Publications
The fully chlorinated closo-dodecaborate salt Cs2 [B12Cl12] was prepared in high yield from
Cs2 [B12H12] and SO2Cl2 in acetonitrile at refluxing temperature.[Ph3C] 2 [B12Cl12] was …

B–H functionalization of the monocarba-closo-dodecaborate anion by rhodium and iridium catalysis

Y Shen, Y Pan, K Zhang, X Liang, J Liu… - Dalton …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The regioselective derivatization of the monocarba-closo-dodecaborate anion via catalytic B–
H bond activation is reported. Amide directing groups in combination with rhodium and …

Cationic two-coordinate complexes of Pd (I) and Pt (I) have longer metal-ligand bonds than their neutral counterparts

MC MacInnis, JC DeMott, EM Zolnhofer, J Zhou… - Chem, 2016 - cell.com
One-electron oxidation of known (t Bu 3 P) 2 M (1, M= Pd; 2, M= Pt) with [Ph 3 C][HCB 11 Cl
11] leads to two-coordinate, monovalent cations of the formula [(t Bu 3 P) 2 M][HCB 11 Cl …