Proton to hydride umpolung at a phosphonium center via electron relay: a new strategy for main-group based water reduction-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Proton to hydride umpolung at a phosphonium center via electron relay: a new strategy for main-group based water reduction

Published:2021 Issue:47 Volume:12 Page:15603-15608
ISSN:2041-6520
Container-title:Chemical Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Chem. Sci.

Author:

Oishi Takumi¹,Lugo-Fuentes Leonardo I.²,Jing Yichuan¹,Jimenez-Halla J. Oscar C.²,Barroso-Flores Joaquín³⁴^ORCID,Nakamoto Masaaki¹,Yamamoto Yohsuke¹^ORCID,Tsunoji Nao⁵^ORCID,Shang Rong¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8526, Japan

2. Department of Chemistry, Division of Natural and Exact Sciences, University of Guanajuato, Campus Gto, Noria Alta s/n, 36050 Guanajuato, Mexico

3. Centro Conjunto de Investigación en Química Sustentable UAEM-UNAM, Unidad San Cayetano, 50200 Toluca de lerdo, México

4. Instituto de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior S/N, Ciudad Universitaria, alcaldía de Coyoacán, CP 04510, Ciudad de México, México

5. Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University, 1-4-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, 739-8527, Japan

Abstract

A (bisborane)triarylphosphine was developed to spontaneously generate H2 from water under ambient conditions, revealing an unprecedented multi-centered electron relay mechanism for a metal-free umpolung of proton to hydride.

Funder

Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Hiroshima University

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2021/SC/D1SC05135K

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