1,4-Addition reactions of frustrated Lewis pairs to 1,3-dienes

Matthias Ullrich; Kelvin S-H Seto; Alan J Lough; Douglas W Stephan

doi:10.1039/b901212e

1,4-Addition reactions of frustrated Lewis pairs to 1,3-dienes

Chem Commun (Camb). 2009 May 7:(17):2335-7. doi: 10.1039/b901212e. Epub 2009 Mar 6.

Authors

Matthias Ullrich¹, Kelvin S-H Seto, Alan J Lough, Douglas W Stephan

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St George St, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

PMID: 19377677
DOI: 10.1039/b901212e

Abstract

Reactions of a frustrated Lewis pair composed of a sterically encumbered phosphine and borane are shown to react with 1,3-dienes to give the 1,4-addition products.