ABSTRACT
This letter describes the one-step conversion of heteroatom-substituted potassium organotrifluoroborates (KRBF3) to metal monoorganoborohydrides (MRBH3) using alkali metal aluminum hydrides. The method tolerates a variety of functional groups, expanding MRBH3 diversity. Hydride removal with Me3SiCl in the presence of dimethylaminopyridine (DMAP) affords the organoborane·DMAP (RBH2·DMAP) adducts.
ABSTRACT
The title compound [systematic name: 4-(di-methyl-amino)-pyridine-4-meth-oxy-phenyl-borane (1/1)], C14H19BN2O, contains two independent mol-ecules in the asymmetric unit. Both molecules exhibit coplanar, mostly sp2-hybridized meth-oxy and di-methyl-amino substituents on their respective aromatic rings, consistent with π-donation into the aromatic systems. The B-H groups exhibit an intra-molecular close contact with a C-H group of the pyridine ring, which may be evidence of electrostatic attraction between the hydridic B-H and the electropositive aromatic C-H. There appears to be weak C-Hâ¯π(arene) inter-actions between two of the H atoms of an amino-methyl group and the meth-oxy-substituted benzene ring of the other independent mol-ecule, and another C-Hâ¯π (arene) inter-action between one of the pyridine ring H atoms and the same benzene ring.
