Dewhurst Rian D, Légaré Marc-André, Braunschweig Holger
Institute for Inorganic Chemistry, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074, Würzburg, Germany.
Institute for Sustainable Chemistry & Catalysis with Boron, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074, Würzburg, Germany.
Commun Chem. 2020 Sep 16;3(1):131. doi: 10.1038/s42004-020-00371-4.
The activation of very inert small molecules generally requires highly reactive activating species, but the high energy of these species makes their regeneration, and thus also catalytic turnover of the reaction, difficult to achieve. Here, the authors highlight the formidable challenge of overcoming the tradeoff between activating power and catalytic turnover in the context of main-group ambiphiles.
非常惰性的小分子的活化通常需要高反应活性的活化物种,但这些物种的高能量使得它们的再生变得困难,进而也使得反应的催化周转难以实现。在此,作者强调了在主族双亲试剂的背景下克服活化能力与催化周转之间权衡这一艰巨挑战。