Myron Heinz

Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main · Institute of Biochemistry

The reaction of benzoborirene with one equivalent of isocyanides leads to benzene‐fused boretes bearing one imine function, while the reaction with two equivalents of isocyanide affords 2,3‐dihydro‐2,3‐diiminoboroles with perfect regioselectivity. The isocyanide double insertion products represent a novel type of 1,2‐diimine with a benzoborole back...

The reaction of benzoborirene with one equivalent of isocyanides leads to benzene‐fused boretes bearing one imine function, while the reaction with two equivalents of isocyanide affords 2,3‐dihydro‐2,3‐diiminoboroles with perfect regioselectivity. The isocyanide double insertion products represent a novel type of 1,2‐diimine with a benzoborole back...

Ferrocene‐based N‐heterocyclic plumbylenes fc[(NSiMe2R)2Pb:] (1; fc=1,1’‐ferrocenylene) are easily accessible by transamination from [(Me3Si)2N]2Pb and the corresponding 1,1’‐diaminoferrocene derivatives fc(NHSiMe2R)2. They may form unconventional dimers 2 by a process, which causes the cleavage of a cyclopentadienyl C−H bond and the formation of a...

We report a detailed computational and experimental study of the fixation and reductive coupling of dinitrogen with low-valent boron compounds. Consistent with our mechanistic findings, the selectivity toward nitrogen fixation or coupling can be controlled through either steric bulk or the reaction conditions, allowing for the on-demand synthesis o...

Trichlorosilane is the key intermediate for the large‐scale production of polycrystalline silicon in the Siemens and Union Carbide processes. Both processes, however, are highly inefficient, and over two thirds of the trichlorosilane employed is converted to unwanted silicon tetrachloride accumulating in millions of tons per year on a global scale....

Cyclic (alkyl)(amino)carbenes with a 1,1’-ferrocenylene backbone (fcCAACs) are established as an original family by the preparation of a crystalline congener. The C carbene bond angle is unprecedentedly wide for a CAAC,...

The parent borylene (CAAC)(Me3P)BH, 1 (CAAC=cyclic alkyl(amino)carbene), acts both as a Lewis base and one‐electron reducing agent towards group 13 trichlorides (ECl3, E=B, Al, Ga, In), yielding the adducts 1‐ECl3 and increasing proportions of the radical cation [1]•+ for the heavier group 13 analogues. With boron trihalides (BX3, X=F, Cl, Br, I) 1...

Reactions of a silylene with a ketene and with carbon suboxide are reported, respectively leading to the first silaallene oxide and to a silylketene, whose reaction with water affords the...

A stable cyclic diaminosilylene featuring a ferrocene‐based backbone is reported. The dicoordinate SiII atom is part of a six‐membered FeC2N2Si ring and shows a comparatively large bond angle of ca. 107°. This N‐heterocyclic silylene can activate strong bonds (C=O, N=O, B−H, N−H, P−H, O−H) under ambient conditions. Abstract The N‐heterocyclic sily...

The N‐heterocyclic silylene [{Fe(η⁵‐C5H4‐NDipp)2}Si] (1DippSi, Dipp=2,6‐diisopropylphenyl) shows an excellent combination of pronounced thermal stability and high reactivity towards small molecules. It reacts readily with CO2 and N2O, respectively affording (1DippSiO2)2C and (1DippSiO)2 as follow‐up products of the silanone 1DippSiO. Its reactions...

The one-electron reduction of (CAACMe)BCl3 (CAACMe = 1-(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)-3,3,5,5-tetramethylpyrrolidin-2-ylidene) yields the dichloroboryl radical [(CAACMe)BCl2]•. Furthermore, the twofold reduction of (CAACMe)BCl3 in the presence of a range of Lewis bases (L = CAACMe, N-heterocyclic carbene, phosphine) yields a series of doubly base-supporte...