1,1-Carboboration to tellurium-boron intramolecular frustrated Lewis pairs

Fu An Tsao; Douglas W Stephan

doi:10.1039/c4dt03241a

1,1-Carboboration to tellurium-boron intramolecular frustrated Lewis pairs

Dalton Trans. 2015 Jan 7;44(1):71-4. doi: 10.1039/c4dt03241a.

Authors

Fu An Tsao¹, Douglas W Stephan

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George St., Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada. dstephan@chem.utoronto.ca.

PMID: 25408099
DOI: 10.1039/c4dt03241a

Abstract

The tellurium acetylide Ph(CH2)2TeCCPh reacts with boranes via 1,1-carboboration to give a series of borylated vinyl telluroethers. The product Ph(CH2)2TeC(Ph)C(C6F5) B(C6F5)2 reacts with phenylacetylene and iodine to give novel tellurium-boron heterocyclic compounds.