Gallium-boron donor-acceptor bonds

N J Hardman; P P Power; J D Gorden; C L Macdonald; A H Cowley

doi:10.1039/b106599h

Gallium-boron donor-acceptor bonds

Chem Commun (Camb). 2001 Sep 21:(18):1866-7. doi: 10.1039/b106599h.

Authors

N J Hardman¹, P P Power, J D Gorden, C L Macdonald, A H Cowley

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA.

PMID: 12240353
DOI: 10.1039/b106599h

Abstract

Examples of compounds with gallium-boron donor-acceptor bonds, HC[MeC(2,6-pri2C6H3)N]2Ga-->B(C6F5)3 3 and (eta 5-C5Me5)Ga-->B(C6F5)3 4 have been prepared by treatment of the free gallanediyls with B(C6F5)3; the structures of both compounds were determined by X-ray crystallography.