Cleaving Dihydrogen with Tetra(o-tolyl)diborane(4).

Nana TsukaharaHiroki AsakawaKa-Ho Lee Zhenyang Lin Makoto Yamashita

Published in: Journal of the American Chemical Society (2017)

Tetra(o-tolyl)diborane(4), 1, was synthesized and characterized experimentally as well as theoretically by density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Exposure of 1 to H2 (1 bar) at room temperature afforded the corresponding di(o-tolyl)hydroborane through cleavage of the H-H and B-B bonds. DFT calculations suggested a diarylboryl anion character for the transition state.

Keyphrases

density functional theory
room temperature
ionic liquid
molecular dynamics
biofilm formation
dna binding
escherichia coli
pseudomonas aeruginosa
cystic fibrosis
transition metal