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Chem. Commun., 2009, 7417 - 7418, DOI: 10.1039/b915657g


1,2-Olefin addition of a frustrated amine–borane Lewis pair

Jean-Baptiste Sortais, Tanja Voss, Gerald Kehr, Roland Fröhlich and Gerhard Erker


Addition of B(C6F5)3 to an -dimethylamino-o-vinylferrocenophane system gives a frustrated Lewis pair that undergoes intramolecular 1,2-N–B addition to the alkene.

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