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CO2 Unlocks Reactivity: Boryl Silyl Ketene Acetals Enable Mild and Direct C═C Bond Cleavage
Espinosa-Jalapa, Noel Angel, Kümper, Manuel and Bauer, Jonathan O.
(2025)
CO2 Unlocks Reactivity: Boryl Silyl Ketene Acetals Enable Mild and Direct C═C Bond Cleavage.
Journal of the American Chemical Society 147 (51), pp. 47573-47583.
Date of publication of this fulltext: 20 Jan 2026 16:43
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.78483
Abstract
Boron–ligand cooperation (BLC) has emerged as a powerful principle of bond activation with main-group elements, yet pyridine-based systems have so far eluded experimental evidence of CO2 activation. We show here that four-membered pyridyl–boracycles activate CO2 through a dearomatizing boron–carbon bond cleavage, unambiguously proceeding by a BLC rather than a B/N-FLP-type mechanism, as confirmed ...
Boron–ligand cooperation (BLC) has emerged as a powerful principle of bond activation with main-group elements, yet pyridine-based systems have so far eluded experimental evidence of CO2 activation. We show here that four-membered pyridyl–boracycles activate CO2 through a dearomatizing boron–carbon bond cleavage, unambiguously proceeding by a BLC rather than a B/N-FLP-type mechanism, as confirmed by density functional theory (DFT) studies, in contrast to previously predicted computational pathways. This process furnishes boryl silyl ketene acetals, a hitherto unknown class of enolate equivalents in which the two oxygen atoms are differentiated by boryl and silyl substituents. These intermediates exhibit remarkable follow-up reactivity, eventually leading to a mild, one-step C═C double-bond cleavage that delivers fulvene derivatives under additive-free conditions, thereby constituting an unprecedented form of metathesis. Overall, our findings establish boryl silyl ketene acetals derived from CO2 as a novel class of main-group systems that unlock a reactivity platform with far-reaching synthetic implications.
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| Item type | Article | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title | Journal of the American Chemical Society | ||||
| Publisher: | American Chemical Society (ACS) | ||||
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| Open Access Type: | ACS Hybrid | ||||
| Volume: | 147 | ||||
| Number of Issue or Book Chapter: | 51 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 47573-47583 | ||||
| Date | 15 December 2025 | ||||
| Institutions | Chemistry and Pharmacy > Institut für Anorganische Chemie | ||||
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
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| Keywords | Frustrated Lewis pairs; Hydrocarbons; Inorganic carbon compounds; Oxides; Reactivity | ||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 500 Science > 540 Chemistry & allied sciences | ||||
| Status | Published | ||||
| Refereed | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg | Yes | ||||
| URN of the UB Regensburg | urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-784839 | ||||
| Item ID | 78483 |
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