Intercepting low oxidation state main group hydrides with a nucleophilic N-heterocyclic olefin

S M Ibrahim Al-Rafia; Adam C Malcolm; Sean K Liew; Michael J Ferguson; Robert McDonald; Eric Rivard

doi:10.1039/c1cc11737h

Intercepting low oxidation state main group hydrides with a nucleophilic N-heterocyclic olefin

Chem Commun (Camb). 2011 Jun 28;47(24):6987-9. doi: 10.1039/c1cc11737h. Epub 2011 May 11.

Authors

S M Ibrahim Al-Rafia¹, Adam C Malcolm, Sean K Liew, Michael J Ferguson, Robert McDonald, Eric Rivard

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.

PMID: 21562648
DOI: 10.1039/c1cc11737h

Abstract

The N-heterocyclic olefin, IPr=CH(2) (IPr = [(HCNDipp)(2)C], Dipp = 2,6-(i)Pr(2)C(6)H(3)) has been demonstrated to be of sufficient Lewis basicity to stabilize main group hydrides in unusually low oxidation states.