Borane-Substituted Imidazol-2-ylidenes:
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Andreas Wacker; Hans Pritzkow; Walter Siebert
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Article
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1998
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Reactions of the Lewis acids BH 3 and BEt 3 with trimethylimidazole (1) lead to the borane adducts 2a and 2b. Deprotonation of 2a with n-butyllithium results in the formation of the novel N-borane-substituted imidazol-2ylidene anion 3a -whereas deprotonated 2b rearranges unexpectedly to the anionic