Neutral Diboraacenes: Harnessing the Power of Cooperating, Spatially-Separated Subvalent Boron Atoms

含两个硼原子的杂环家族，包括双阴离子以及中性、卡宾稳定的例子，正在成为具有广泛键激活能力和不寻常性质的高反应性物种。多年来，我们一直在开发中性、卡宾稳定的二硼并苯的合成路线，包括1，4-二硼苯、9，10-二硼蒽和6，13-二硼并五苯，并揭示了它们与主族、过渡金属和锕系元素的迷人反应性。该项目的目标是扩展（多环）卡宾稳定的二硼并苯框架的显着扩展，以及对其电子性质和反应性的研究，重点是惰性小分子的活化。

The family of two-boron-atom-containing heterocycles, which includes dianionic as well as neutral, carbene-stabilised examples, are emerging as highly reactive species with a wide range of bond-activation abilities and unusual properties. For a number of years we have been developing synthetic routes to neutral, carbene-stabilised diboraacenes, including 1,4-diborabenzenes, 9,10-diboraanthracenes and a 6,13-diborapentacene, and uncovering their fascinating reactivity with main-group, transition-metal and actinide species. This project targets a significant expansion of the frameworks of extended (multicyclic) carbene-stabilised diboraacenes and the study of their electronic properties and reactivity, focusing on the activation of inert small molecules.