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SUBMITTER: Ried ACA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6563444 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ried Alexander C A ACA Taylor Laurence J LJ Geer Ana M AM Williams Huw E L HEL Lewis William W Blake Alexander J AJ Kays Deborah L DL
Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) 20190425 27
A magnesium complex (1) featuring a bidentate aminopyridinato ligand is a remarkably selective catalyst for the dehydrocoupling of amine-boranes. This reaction proceeds to completion with low catalyst loadings (1 mol %) under mild conditions (60 °C), exceeding previously reported s-block systems in terms of selectivity, rate, and turnover number (TON). Mechanistic studies by in situ NMR analysis reveals the reaction to be first order in both catalyst and substrate. A reaction mechanism is propos ...[more]