Ho Samuel Y-F, So Cheuk-Wai, Saffon-Merceron Nathalie, Mézailles Nicolas
Laboratoire Hétérochimie Fondamentale et Appliquée, Université Paul Sabatier, CNRS, 118 Route de Narbonne, 31062 Toulouse, France.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Feb 7;51(11):2107-10. doi: 10.1039/c4cc09239b. Epub 2014 Dec 23.
The treatment of Li2C(PPh2NMes)2 (1, Mes = 2,4,6-Me3C6H2) with hexachloroethane yielded the corresponding carbenoid 2 in good yields. The reactivity of 2 was studied with BH3·SMe2 to give a zwitterionic boronium species 4, also a stable carbenoid. Both carbenoid species were found to be excellent catalysts for the CO2 reduction by BH3·SMe2.