In this HOT article, Harder and Spielmann describe some alkaline earth metal aminoborane ligands and their thermal behaviour. By using their new ditopic bis(ketiminate) ligands, they have been able to synthesize binuclear complexes that are pre-organised for constructing bridging aminoborane oligomers as ligands. By heating the initial non-bridging complexes, the aminoboranes couple and lose H2. The loss of hydrogen from aminoborane ligands has practical relevance to hydrogen storage chemistry and also to the fields of solid state and metal-organic chemistry.
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Binuclear magnesium amidoborane complexes: characterization of a trinuclear thermal decomposition product
Jan Spielmann and Sjoerd Harder
Dalton Trans., 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C1DT10694E
