Zhou Jiliang, Cao Levy L, Liu Liu Leo, Stephan Douglas W
Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St George St., Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada.
Dalton Trans. 2017 Jul 25;46(29):9334-9338. doi: 10.1039/c7dt01726j.
The frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) derived from the trityl cation and (o-tolyl)P effects the activation of 1,4-cyclohexadiene and 1-bromo-4-ethynylbenzene and heterolytically cleaves the S-S bond of diphenyl disulfide. The FLP also captures pentafluorophenyl azide as the Staudinger reaction intermediate, a species that reacts with PhSiH to give the silyl analog.