Scientists in Canada, Japan and Australia have presented the first boron carbonyl complex that is stable at room temperature and they have provided evidence for the insertion of CO into a B-C bond. These observations provide concrete chemical evidence for long-held presumptions regarding the observed reactivity of organoboranes with carbon monoxide.
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Reaction of Pentaarylboroles with Carbon Monoxide: An Isolable Organoboron Carbonyl Complex
A Fukazawa et al
Chem. Sci., 2012, DOI: 10.1039/c2sc20336g
Reaction of Pentaarylboroles with Carbon Monoxide: An Isolable Organoboron Carbonyl Complex
A Fukazawa et al
Chem. Sci., 2012, DOI: 10.1039/c2sc20336g
