Exhaustive chlorination of [B12H12]2- without chlorine gas and the use of [B12Cl12]2- as a Supporting anion in catalytic hydrodefluorination of aliphatic C-F bonds.

abstract

• The fully chlorinated closo-dodecaborate salt Cs(2)[B(12)Cl(12)] was prepared in high yield from Cs(2)[B(12)H(12)] and SO(2)Cl(2) in acetonitrile at refluxing temperature. [Ph(3)C](2)[B(12)Cl(12)] was obtained by simple metathesis reactions. Catalytic hydrodefluorination of benzotrifluoride sp(3) C-F bonds was accomplished using [Ph(3)C](2)[B(12)Cl(12)] as a precatalyst and Et(3)SiH as a stoichiometric reagent. Full consumption of the sp(3) C-F bonds in p-FC(6)H(4)CF(3) and C(6)F(5)CF(3) with a turnover number up to 2000 was achieved.

authors

• Ozerov, Oleg

published proceedings

• Inorg Chem

altmetric score

• 8.384

author list (cited authors)

• Gu, W., & Ozerov, O. V.

citation count

• 56

complete list of authors

• Gu, Weixing||Ozerov, Oleg V

publication date

• April 2011

publisher

• American Chemical Society (ACS)  Publisher

published in

• Inorganic Chemistry  Journal

keywords

• Rare Diseases

PubMed Central ID

• 21361302

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1021/ic200024u

start page

• 2726

end page

• 2728

volume

• 50

issue

• 7

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ic200024u