Houghton Adrian Y, Karttunen Virve A, Piers Warren E, Tuononen Heikki M
Department of Chemistry, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2014 Feb 9;50(11):1295-8. doi: 10.1039/c3cc48796b.
The perfluorinated boraindene was synthesized and fully characterized. Both computational and crystallographic data show that is antiaromatic. Compound was shown to react reversibly with H2 and to catalyse the hydrogenation of cyclohexene. The mechanism of catalysis was probed experimentally and computationally.
