Boron-boron multiple bonding

Project Information

multiBB

Grant agreement ID: 669054

DOI 10.3030/669054

Project closed

EC signature date 17 July 2015

Start date 1 May 2016

End date 30 April 2021

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 2 500 000,00

EU contribution € 2 500 000,00

Coordinated by

JULIUS-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAT WURZBURG
Germany

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (41)

Mild synthesis of diboryldiborenes by diboration of B–B triple bonds

Author(s): Tobias Brückner, Rian D. Dewhurst, Theresa Dellermann, Marcel Müller, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Chemical Science, Issue 10/31, 2019, Page(s) 7375-7378, ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c9sc02544h

Hydrophosphination of boron–boron multiple bonds

Author(s): Tom E. Stennett, Arumugam Jayaraman, Tobias Brückner, Lea Schneider, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Chemical Science, Issue 11/5, 2020, Page(s) 1335-1341, ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c9sc05908c

π‐Complexes of Diborynes with Main Group Atoms

Author(s): William C. Ewing, Theresa Dellermann, Y. T. Angel Wong, James D. Mattock, Alfredo Vargas, David L. Bryce, Rian D. Dewhurst, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Chemistry—An Asian Journal, Issue 15, 2020, Page(s) 1553-1557, ISSN 1861-471X
Publisher: Wiley-VCH GmbH
DOI: 10.1002/asia.202000185

Synthesis of Boron Analogues of Enamines via Hydroamination of a Boron−Boron Triple Bond

Author(s): Tobias Brückner, Merlin Heß, Tom E. Stennett, Anna Rempel, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 60/2, 2021, Page(s) 736-741, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202012101

2,2′-Bipyridyl as a Redox-Active Borylene Abstraction Agent

Author(s): Siyuan Liu, Marc-André Légaré, Jens Seufert, Dominic Prieschl, Anna Rempel, Lukas Englert, Theresa Dellermann, Valerie Paprocki, Andreas Stoy, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Inorganic Chemistry, Issue 59/15, 2020, Page(s) 10866-10873, ISSN 0020-1669
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c01383

Stable Actinide π Complexes of a Neutral 1,4‐Diborabenzene

Author(s): Valerie Paprocki, Peter Hrobárik, Katie L. M. Harriman, Martin S. Luff, Thomas Kupfer, Martin Kaupp, Muralee Murugesu, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 59/31, 2020, Page(s) 13109-13115, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202004501

Spontaneous trans ‐Selective Transfer Hydrogenation of Apolar Boron–Boron Double Bonds

Author(s): Michael Dömling, Merle Arrowsmith, Uwe Schmidt, Luis Werner, Abril C. Castro, J. Oscar C. Jiménez‐Halla, Rüdiger Bertermann, Jonas Müssig, Dominic Prieschl, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 58/29, 2019, Page(s) 9782-9786, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201902656

Stable Lewis Base Adducts of Tetrahalodiboranes: Synthetic Methods and Structural Diversity

Author(s): Lukas Englert, Andreas Stoy, Merle Arrowsmith, Jonas H. Muessig, Melanie Thaler, Andrea Deißenberger, Alena Häfner, Julian Böhnke, Florian Hupp, Jens Seufert, Jan Mies, Alexander Damme, Theresa Dellermann, Kai Hammond, Thomas Kupfer, Krzysztof Radacki, Torsten Thiess, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Chemistry – A European Journal, Issue 25/36, 2019, Page(s) 8612-8622, ISSN 0947-6539
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201901437

Trapping of a Borirane Intermediate in the Reductive Coupling of an Arylborane to a Diborene

Author(s): Alexander Hermann, Merle Arrowsmith, Daniel E. Trujillo-Gonzalez, J. Oscar C. Jiménez-Halla, Alfredo Vargas, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 142/12, 2020, Page(s) 5562-5567, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c02306

Dibora[2]ferrocenophane: A Carbene-Stabilized Diborene in a Strained cis -Configuration

Author(s): Holger Braunschweig, Ivo Krummenacher, Crispin Lichtenberg, James D. Mattock, Marius Schäfer, Uwe Schmidt, Christoph Schneider, Thomas Steffenhagen, Stefan Ullrich, Alfredo Vargas
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 56/3, 2017, Page(s) 889-892, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201609601

Highly Strained Heterocycles Constructed from Boron-Boron Multiple Bonds and Heavy Chalcogens

Author(s): Holger Braunschweig, Philipp Constantinidis, Theresa Dellermann, William C. Ewing, Ingo Fischer, Merlin Hess, Fergus R. Knight, Anna Rempel, Christoph Schneider, Stefan Ullrich, Alfredo Vargas, J. Derek Woollins
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 55/18, 2016, Page(s) 5606-5609, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201601691

Increasing the Reactivity of Diborenes: Derivatization of NHC-Supported Dithienyldiborenes with Electron-Donor Groups

Author(s): Dominic Auerhammer, Merle Arrowsmith, Philipp Bissinger, Holger Braunschweig, Theresa Dellermann, Thomas Kupfer, Carsten Lenczyk, Dipak K. Roy, Marius Schäfer, Christoph Schneider
Published in: Chemistry - A European Journal, 2017, ISSN 0947-6539
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201704669

CuOTf-mediated intramolecular diborene hydroarylation

Author(s): Sunewang Rixin Wang, Merle Arrowsmith, Holger Braunschweig, Rian D. Dewhurst, Valerie Paprocki, Lena Winner
Published in: Chem. Commun., Issue 53/87, 2017, Page(s) 11945-11947, ISSN 1359-7345
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c7cc07371b

Monomeric 16-Electron π-Diborene Complexes of Zn(II) and Cd(II)

Author(s): Sunewang R. Wang, Merle Arrowsmith, Holger Braunschweig, Rian D. Dewhurst, Michael Dömling, James D. Mattock, Conor Pranckevicius, Alfredo Vargas
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 139/31, 2017, Page(s) 10661-10664, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b06644

Neutral Diboron Analogues of Archetypal Aromatic Species by Spontaneous Cycloaddition

Author(s): Merle Arrowsmith, Julian Böhnke, Holger Braunschweig, Mehmet Ali Celik, Christina Claes, William C. Ewing, Ivo Krummenacher, Katharina Lubitz, Christoph Schneider
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 55/37, 2016, Page(s) 11271-11275, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201602384

Uncatalyzed Hydrogenation of First-Row Main Group Multiple Bonds

Author(s): Merle Arrowsmith, Julian Böhnke, Holger Braunschweig, Mehmet Ali Celik, Theresa Dellermann, Kai Hammond
Published in: Chemistry - A European Journal, Issue 22/48, 2016, Page(s) 17169-17172, ISSN 0947-6539
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201604094

Reactivity of a Dihydrodiborene with CO: Coordination, Insertion, Cleavage, and Spontaneous Formation of a Cyclic Alkyne

Author(s): Merle Arrowsmith, Julian Böhnke, Holger Braunschweig, Mehmet Ali Celik
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 56/45, 2017, Page(s) 14287-14292, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201707907

Engineering a Small HOMO-LUMO Gap and Intramolecular C−H Borylation by Diborene/Anthracene Orbital Intercalation

Author(s): Sunewang R. Wang, Merle Arrowsmith, Julian Böhnke, Holger Braunschweig, Theresa Dellermann, Rian D. Dewhurst, Hauke Kelch, Ivo Krummenacher, James D. Mattock, Jonas H. Müssig, Torsten Thiess, Alfredo Vargas, Jiji Zhang
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 56/27, 2017, Page(s) 8009-8013, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201704063

Simple solution-phase syntheses of tetrahalodiboranes(4) and their labile dimethylsulfide adducts

Author(s): Merle Arrowsmith, Julian Böhnke, Holger Braunschweig, Andrea Deißenberger, Rian D. Dewhurst, William C. Ewing, Christian Hörl, Jan Mies, Jonas H. Muessig
Published in: Chemical Communications, Issue 53/59, 2017, Page(s) 8265-8267, ISSN 1359-7345
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c7cc03148c

Formation and Reactivity of Electron-Precise B−B Single and Multiple Bonds

Author(s): Merle Arrowsmith, Holger Braunschweig, Tom E. Stennett
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 56/1, 2017, Page(s) 96-115, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201610072

Isolation of diborenes and their 90°-twisted diradical congeners

Author(s): Julian Böhnke, Theresa Dellermann, Mehmet Ali Celik, Ivo Krummenacher, Rian D. Dewhurst, Serhiy Demeshko, William C. Ewing, Kai Hammond, Merlin Heß, Eckhard Bill, Eileen Welz, Merle I. S. Röhr, Roland Mitrić, Bernd Engels, Franc Meyer, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 9/1, 2018, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-02998-3

Closely related yet different: a borylene and its dimer are non-interconvertible but connected through reactivity

Author(s): Dominic Auerhammer, Merle Arrowsmith, Rian D. Dewhurst, Thomas Kupfer, Julian Böhnke, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Chemical Science, Issue 9/8, 2018, Page(s) 2252-2260, ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c7sc04789d

Half-Sandwich Complexes of an Extremely Electron-Donating, Redox-Active η 6 -Diborabenzene Ligand

Author(s): Julian Böhnke, Holger Braunschweig, J. Oscar C. Jiménez-Halla, Ivo Krummenacher, Tom E. Stennett
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 140/2, 2018, Page(s) 848-853, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b12394

Synthesis of Unsymmetrical Diboron(5) Compounds and Their Conversion to Diboron(5) Cations

Author(s): Jessica Cid, Alexander Hermann, James E. Radcliffe, Liam D. Curless, Holger Braunschweig, Michael J. Ingleson
Published in: Organometallics, Issue 37/12, 2018, Page(s) 1992-1998, ISSN 0276-7333
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.8b00288

Single and double activation of acetone by isolobal BN and BB triple bonds

Author(s): Julian Böhnke, Tobias Brückner, Alexander Hermann, Oscar F. González-Belman, Merle Arrowsmith, J. Oscar C. Jiménez-Halla, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Chemical Science, Issue 9/24, 2018, Page(s) 5354-5359, ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/C8SC01249K

CO 2 Binding and Splitting by Boron-Boron Multiple Bonds

Author(s): Andreas Stoy, Julian Böhnke, J. Oscar C. Jiménez-Halla, Rian D. Dewhurst, Torsten Thiess, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 57/20, 2018, Page(s) 5947-5951, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201802117

Reactivity Enhancement of a Zerovalent Diboron Compound by Desymmetrization

Author(s): Julian Böhnke, Merle Arrowsmith, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 140/32, 2018, Page(s) 10368-10373, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b06930

Direct access to a cAAC-supported dihydrodiborene and its dianion

Author(s): Merle Arrowsmith, James D. Mattock, Julian Böhnke, Ivo Krummenacher, Alfredo Vargas, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Chemical Communications, Issue 54/37, 2018, Page(s) 4669-4672, ISSN 1359-7345
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/C8CC01580E

Diboryldiborenes: π-Conjugated B 4 Chains Isoelectronic to the Butadiene Dication

Author(s): Alexander Hermann, Jessica Cid, James D. Mattock, Rian D. Dewhurst, Ivo Krummenacher, Alfredo Vargas, Michael J. Ingleson, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 57/32, 2018, Page(s) 10091-10095, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201805394

Unsymmetrical, Cyclic Diborenes and Thermal Rearrangement to a Borylborylene

Author(s): Tom E. Stennett, James D. Mattock, Ivonne Vollert, Alfredo Vargas, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 57/15, 2018, Page(s) 4098-4102, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201800671

Construction of Linear and Branched Tetraboranes by 1,1- and 1,2-Diboration of Diborenes

Author(s): Tom E. Stennett, Rüdiger Bertermann, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 57/48, 2018, Page(s) 15896-15901, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201809976

Chelated Diborenes and Their Inverse-Electron-Demand Diels-Alder Reactions with Dienes

Author(s): Tom E. Stennett, James D. Mattock, Leanne Pentecost, Alfredo Vargas, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 57/46, 2018, Page(s) 15276-15281, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201809217

Near-Infrared Quadrupolar Chromophores Combining Three-Coordinate Boron-Based Superdonor and Superacceptor Units

Author(s): Tom E. Stennett, Philipp Bissinger, Stefanie Griesbeck, Stefan Ullrich, Ivo Krummenacher, Michael Auth, Andreas Sperlich, Matthias Stolte, Krzysztof Radacki, Chang-Jiang Yao, Frank Würthner, Andreas Steffen, Todd B. Marder, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 58/19, 2019, Page(s) 6449-6454, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201900889

Phosphine-Stabilized Diiododiborenes: Isolable Diborenes with Six Labile Bonds

Author(s): Jonas H. Muessig, Melanie Thaler, Rian D. Dewhurst, Valerie Paprocki, Jens Seufert, James D. Mattock, Alfredo Vargas, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 58/13, 2019, Page(s) 4405-4409, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201814230

trans ‐Selective Insertional Dihydroboration of a cis ‐Diborene: Synthesis of Linear sp 3 ‐sp 2 ‐sp 3 ‐Triboranes and Subsequent Cationization

Author(s): Uwe Schmidt, Luis Werner, Merle Arrowsmith, Andrea Deissenberger, Alexander Hermann, Alexander Hofmann, Stefan Ullrich, James D. Mattock, Alfredo Vargas, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 59/1, 2020, Page(s) 325-329, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201911645

Oxidation, Coordination, and Nickel‐Mediated Deconstruction of a Highly Electron‐Rich Diboron Analogue of 1,3,5‐Hexatriene

Author(s): Alexander Hermann, Felipe Fantuzzi, Merle Arrowsmith, Theresa Zorn, Ivo Krummenacher, Benedikt Ritschel, Krzysztof Radacki, Bernd Engels, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 59/36, 2020, Page(s) 15717-15725, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202006131

Synthesis of fused B,N-heterocycles by alkyne cleavage, NHC ring-expansion and C–H activation at a diboryne

Author(s): Tobias Brückner, Merle Arrowsmith, Merlin Heß, Kai Hammond, Marcel Müller, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Chemical Communications, Issue 55/47, 2019, Page(s) 6700-6703, ISSN 1359-7345
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/c9cc02657f

Boron: Its Role in Energy‐Related Processes and Applications

Author(s): Zhenguo Huang, Suning Wang, Rian D. Dewhurst, Nikolai V. Ignat'ev, Maik Finze, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Issue 59/23, 2020, Page(s) 8800-8816, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201911108

Tuneable reduction of cymantrenylboranes to diborenes or borylene-derived boratafulvenes

Author(s): Uwe Schmidt, Felipe Fantuzzi, Merle Arrowsmith, Alexander Hermann, Dominic Prieschl, Anna Rempel, Bernd Engels, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Chemical Communications, Issue 56/94, 2020, Page(s) 14809-14812, ISSN 1359-7345
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0cc06398c

Metallomimetic Chemistry of Boron

Author(s): Marc-André Légaré, Conor Pranckevicius, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Chemical Reviews, Issue 119/14, 2019, Page(s) 8231-8261, ISSN 0009-2665
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00561

Single and Double Hydroboration of B–B Triple Bonds and Convergent Routes to a Cationic Tetraborane

Author(s): Tobias Brückner, Tom E. Stennett, Merlin Heß, Holger Braunschweig
Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society, Issue 141/37, 2019, Page(s) 14898-14903, ISSN 0002-7863
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b07991