Nucleophilic versus electrophilic boryl moieties: activation and application in catalysis
Boron compounds have been traditionally regarded as “Lewis Acids” preferring to accept electrons rather than donate them in the course of their reactions, but current examples of unusual reactivity between tricoordinatedboranes and electrophilic sites suggest another conceptual context for the boryl...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis doctoral |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2013 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Rovira i virgili (URV) |
| Repositorio: | Repositori Institucional de la Universitat Rovira i Virgili |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:urv.cat:TDX:1323 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX1323 http://hdl.handle.net/10803/129289 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | 547 - Química orgànica 546 - Química inorgànica 544 - Química física 54 - Química |
| Sumario: | Boron compounds have been traditionally regarded as “Lewis Acids” preferring to accept electrons rather than donate them in the course of their reactions, but current examples of unusual reactivity between tricoordinatedboranes and electrophilic sites suggest another conceptual context for the boryl moieties, based on their nucleophilic character which can be enhanced depending on the substituents on boron. In this thesis, we aim to show an overview of these opposite reactivities through the computational study of different trivalent boron compounds. Moreover, we have also focused our attention in the study of two reactions, the non-conventional trans-hydroboration where the boryl moiety is acting as an electrophile and the organocatalytic-boration with a mixed diboron reagent where the boryl moiety is acting as a nucleophile. |
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