Hydrogen activation using a novel tribenzyltin Lewis acid

Hydrogen activation using a novel tribenzyltin Lewis acid

Over the last decade there has been an explosion in the reactivity and applications of frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) chemistry. Despite this, the Lewis acids (LAs) in these transformations are often boranes, with heavier p-block elements receiving surprisingly little attention. The novel LA Bn3SnOTf (1) has been synthesized from simple, inexpensive starting materials and has been spectroscopicall...

Novel Lewis acid catalysis in organic synthesis

Cationic zirconocene or hafnocene complexes serve as a novel class of Lewis acid with unique reactivities, which are to be exploited in organic synthesis. Four categories of reactivities are discussed, that is, (A) C-F bond activation/cleavage, (B) Coordinative activation of ether linkages, (C) Carbonyl activation, and (D) C-0 bond cleavage via zirconocene alkoxide. Introduction Lewis acid-prom...

Internal Lewis acid assisted ureas: tunable hydrogen bond donor catalysts.

The strategic incorporation of internal Lewis acids onto urea scaffolds gives rise to a family of tunable hydrogen bond donor catalysts. The nature of the Lewis acid and associated ligands affects the urea polarization, acidity, and activity in reactions of nitrocyclopropane carboxylates and nitrodiazoesters.

Internal Lewis Acid Assisted Single Hydrogen Bond Donor Catalysis

A computational and conceptual DFT study on the mechanism of hydrogen activation by novel frustrated Lewis pairs.

A computational and conceptual density functional theory (DFT) study on the mechanism of molecular hydrogen activation by a set of three frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) was performed at the ωB97X-D/6-311G(d,p) level of theory. A reduced model and other two prototypes derived from experimental data, based on the donor nitrogen and acceptor boron atoms, were used. Analysis based on the energy resul...