Frustrated Lewis pair chemistry: development and perspectives

DW Stephan, G Erker - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) are combinations of Lewis acids and Lewis bases in
solution that are deterred from strong adduct formation by steric and/or electronic factors …

Frustrated Lewis pairs: from concept to catalysis

DW Stephan - Accounts of chemical research, 2015 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) chemistry has emerged in the past decade as a
strategy that enables main-group compounds to activate small molecules. This concept is …

Frustrated lewis pairs

DW Stephan - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2015 - ACS Publications
The articulation of the notion of “frustrated Lewis pairs”(FLPs), which emerged from the
discovery that H2 can be reversibly activated by combinations of sterically encumbered …

Imidazolium Ionic Liquids, Imidazolylidene Heterocyclic Carbenes, and Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks for CO2 Capture and Photochemical Reduction

S Wang, X Wang - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Imidazolium ionic liquids (ILs), imidazolylidene N‐heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs), and
zeolitic imidazolate frameworks (ZIFs) are imidazolate motifs which have been extensively …

Advances in CO 2 activation by frustrated Lewis pairs: from stoichiometric to catalytic reactions

MN Khan, Y van Ingen, T Boruah, A McLauchlan… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The rise of CO2 concentrations in the environment due to anthropogenic activities results in
global warming and threatens the future of humanity and biodiversity. To address excessive …

Reactive p-block cations stabilized by weakly coordinating anions

TA Engesser, MR Lichtenthaler, M Schleep… - Chemical Society …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The chemistry of the p-block elements is a huge playground for fundamental and applied
work. With their bonding from electron deficient to hypercoordinate and formally hypervalent …

Frustrated Lewis pair chemistry of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur oxides

DW Stephan, G Erker - Chemical Science, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Frustrated Lewis pairs have been used to activate a variety of small molecules. In this review
we focus on the recent chemistry of FLPs with CO2, CO, N2O, NO and SO2. While FLP …

Chemie frustrierter Lewis‐Paare: Entwicklung und Perspektiven

DW Stephan, G Erker - Angewandte Chemie, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Der Begriff “frustrierte Lewis‐Paare”(FLPs) bezeichnet Kombinationen von Lewis‐
Säuren und Lewis‐Basen in Lösung, die aufgrund sterischer oder elektronischer Faktoren …

Halogenated triarylboranes: synthesis, properties and applications in catalysis

JL Carden, A Dasgupta, RL Melen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Halogenated triarylboranes (BAr3) have been known for decades, however it has only been
since the surge of interest in main group catalysis that their application as strong Lewis acid …

Designing effective 'frustrated Lewis pair'hydrogenation catalysts

DJ Scott, MJ Fuchter, AE Ashley - Chemical Society Reviews, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The past decade has seen the subject of transition metal-free catalytic hydrogenation
develop incredibly rapidly, transforming from a largely hypothetical possibility to a well …