Chemistry Letters, Vol.30, No.11, 1076-1077, 2001
Reaction of stable silylene-lsocyanide complexes with boranes: Synthesis and properties of the first stable silylborane-isocyanide complexes
Stable silylene-isocyanide complexes [Tbt(Mes)SiCNAr (Ar = Tbt, Mes*; Tbt = 2,4.6-tris[bis(trimethylsilyl)methyl]phenyl; Mes = mesityl; Mes* = 2,4,6-tri-t-butylphenyl)] reacted with BH3. THF to give the first stable silylborane-isocyanide complexes [Tbt(Mes)SiHBH2CNAr]. The thermal equilibrium between Tbt(Mes)SiHBH2CNAr and TbtSiH(2)BH(Mes)CNAr was observed.