We strongly recommend you have a browse of Dalton Transactions’ latest themed issue in Frustrated Lewis Pairs.
As Guest Editor, Doug Stephan says in his Editorial: there’s nothing frustrating about frustrated Lewis pairs! Particularly as these highly reactive compounds are gaining increasing attention from researchers wishing to activate dihydrogen, olefins, disulfides, CO2… the list continues…
The issue contains 18 articles dedicated to the topic – a small selection is below:
Hydrogen activation by 2-boryl-N,N-dialkylanilines: a revision of Piers’ ansa-aminoborane
Konstantin Chernichenko, Martin Nieger, Markku Leskelä and Timo Repo
Frustrated Lewis pair addition to conjugated diynes: Formation of zwitterionic 1,2,3-butatriene derivatives
Philipp Feldhaus, Birgitta Schirmer, Birgit Wibbeling, Constantin G. Daniliuc, Roland Fröhlich, Stefan Grimme, Gerald Kehr and Gerhard Erker
Fixation of carbon dioxide and related small molecules by a bifunctional frustrated pyrazolylborane Lewis pair
Eileen Theuergarten, Janin Schlösser, Danny Schlüns, Matthias Freytag, Constantin G. Daniliuc, Peter G. Jones and Matthias Tamm
