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Aluminium-catalysed isocyanate trimerization, enhanced by exploiting a dynamic coordination sphere
Bahili, Mohammed A.,Stokes, Emily C.,Amesbury, Robert C.,Ould, Darren M. C.,Christo, Bashar,Horne, Rhian J.,Kariuki, Benson M.,Stewart, Jack A.,Taylor, Rebekah L.,Williams, P. Andrew,Jones, Matthew D.,Harris, Kenneth D. M.,Ward, Benjamin D.
, p. 7679 - 7682 (2019)
Main-group metals are inherently labile, hindering their use in catalysis. We exploit this lability in the synthesis of isocyanurates. For the first time we report a highly active catalyst that trimerizes alkyl, allyl and aryl isocyanates, and di-isocyanates, with low catalyst loadings under mild conditions, using a hemi-labile aluminium-pyridyl-bis(iminophenolate) complex.
