Protodeborylation of Triorganoboranes
Bernd Wrackmeyer, Ezzat Khan, and Rhett Kempe
Anorganische Chemie II, Universit¨at Bayreuth, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany Reprint requests to Prof. Dr. B. Wrackmeyer. E-mail: b.wrack@uni-bayreuth.de Z. Naturforsch.2008,63b,275 – 279; received November 15, 2007
Protodeborylation of triorganoboranes, usually carried out under mild reaction conditions using an excess of acetic acid, affords 1,5-dialkyl-3,7-dimethyl-4,8,9-trioxa-2,6-dioxonia-1,5-diboratabicyclo [3.3.1]nona-2,6-dienes OB(R)OC(Me)OB(R)OC(Me)O [1(R = Et),2(R = cyclooctyl)]. Acetoxy(di- alkyl)boranes and di(acetoxy)alkylboranes were not formed in an appreciable amount. Compounds1 and 2were characterized by NMR spectroscopy (1H,11B, 13C NMR) in solution, the molecular structure of2was determined by X-ray analysis. The gas-phase geometry of1was optimized by calculations [B3LYP/6-311+G(d,p) level of theory], and its NMR parameters were also calculated at the same level of theory.
Key words:Acetolysis, Protodeborylation, Diboroxanes, NMR, X-Ray, DFT Calculations