An aluminum-nitrogen based Lewis pair as an effective catalyst for the oligomerization of cyanamides: formation of acyclic C-N oligomers instead of thermodynamically favored cyclic aromatic trimers

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2013 Jul 8;52(28):7135-8. doi: 10.1002/anie.201301970. Epub 2013 Jun 5.

Authors

Thorsten Holtrichter-Rößmann¹, Jennifer Isermann, Christian Rösener, Benedikt Cramer, Constantin-Gabriel Daniliuc, Jutta Kösters, Matthias Letzel, Ernst-Ulrich Würthwein, Werner Uhl

Affiliation

¹ Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstrasse 30, 48149 Münster, Germany.

PMID: 23740759
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201301970

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Keywords: DFT calculations; Lewis pairs; homogeneous catalysis; oligocyanamides; oligomerization.