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• 1314251-72-3 MeNH₂-BH₂-NHMe-BH₃ 
• 110-83-8 cyclohexene 
• 1722-33-4 methylamine-borane 
• 1349095-84-6 Me₃N-BH₂-NHMe-BH₃ 

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Mechanisms of the thermal and catalytic redistributions, oligomerizations, and polymerizations of linear diborazanes

Linear diborazanes R3N-BH2-NR2-BH 3 (R = alkyl or H) are often implicated as key intermediates in the dehydrocoupling/dehydrogenation of amine-boranes to form oligo- and polyaminoboranes. Here we report detailed studies of the reactivity of three related examples: Me3N-BH2-NMe2-BH3 (1), Me3N-BH2-NHMe-BH3 (2), and MeNH 2-BH2-NHMe-BH3 (3). The mechanisms of the thermal and catalytic redistributions of 1 were investigated in depth using temporal-concentration studies, deuterium labeling, and DFT calculations. The results indicated that, although the products formed under both thermal and catalytic regimes are identical (Me3N·BH3 (8) and [Me2N-BH2]2 (9a)), the mechanisms of their formation differ significantly. The thermal pathway was found to involve the dissociation of the terminal amine to form [H2B(μ-H)(μ-NMe 2)BH2] (5) and NMe3 as intermediates, with the former operating as a catalyst and accelerating the redistribution of 1. Intermediate 5 was then transformed to amine-borane 8 and the cyclic diborazane 9a by two different mechanisms. In contrast, under catalytic conditions (0.3-2 mol % IrH2POCOP (POCOP = κ3-1,3-(OPtBu 2)2C6H3)), 8 was found to inhibit the redistribution of 1 by coordination to the Ir-center. Furthermore, the catalytic pathway involved direct formation of 8 and Me2Ni - BH2 (9b), which spontaneously dimerizes to give 9a, with the absence of 5 and BH3 as intermediates. The mechanisms elucidated for 1 are also likely to be applicable to other diborazanes, for example, 2 and 3, for which detailed mechanistic studies are impaired by complex post-redistribution chemistry. This includes both metal-free and metal-mediated oligomerization of MeNHi - BH2 (10) to form oligoaminoborane [MeNH-BH 2]x (11) or polyaminoborane [MeNH-BH2] n (16) following the initial redistribution reaction.

Mechanistic studies of the dehydrocoupling and dehydropolymerization of amine-boranes using a [Rh(Xantphos)]+ catalyst

A detailed catalytic, stoichiometric, and mechanistic study on the dehydrocoupling of H3B·NMe2H and dehydropolymerization of H3B·NMeH2 using the [Rh(Xantphos)]+ fragment is reported. At 0.2 mol % catalyst loadings, dehydrocoupling produces dimeric [H2B-NMe2]2 and poly(methylaminoborane) (Mn = 22 700 g mol-1, PDI = 2.1), respectively. The stoichiometric and catalytic kinetic data obtained suggest that similar mechanisms operate for both substrates, in which a key feature is an induction period that generates the active catalyst, proposed to be a Rh-amido-borane, that reversibly binds additional amine-borane so that saturation kinetics (Michaelis-Menten type steady-state approximation) operate during catalysis. B-N bond formation (with H3B·NMeH 2) or elimination of amino-borane (with H3B· NMe2H) follows, in which N-H activation is proposed to be turnover limiting (KIE = 2.1 ± 0.2), with suggested mechanisms that only differ in that B-N bond formation (and the resulting propagation of a polymer chain) is favored for H3B·NMeH2 but not H 3B·NMe2H. Importantly, for the dehydropolymerization of H3B·NMeH2, polymer formation follows a chain growth process from the metal (relatively high degrees of polymerization at low conversions, increased catalyst loadings lead to lower-molecular-weight polymer), which is not living, and control of polymer molecular weight can be also achieved by using H2 (Mn = 2 800 g mol-1, PDI = 1.8) or THF solvent (Mn = 52 200 g mol-1, PDI = 1.4). Hydrogen is suggested to act as a chain transfer agent in a similar way to the polymerization of ethene, leading to low-molecular-weight polymer, while THF acts to attenuate chain transfer and accordingly longer polymer chains are formed. In situ studies on the likely active species present data that support a Rh-amido-borane intermediate as the active catalyst. An alternative Rh(III) hydrido-boryl complex, which has been independently synthesized and structurally characterized, is discounted as an intermediate by kinetic studies. A mechanism for dehydropolymerization is suggested in which the putative amido-borane species dehydrogenates an additional H3B·NMeH2 to form the real monomer amino-borane H2B=NMeH that undergoes insertion into the Rh-amido bond to propagate the growing polymer chain from the metal. Such a process is directly analogous to the chain growth mechanism for single-site olefin polymerization.

Catalytic redistribution and polymerization of diborazanes: Unexpected observation of metal-free hydrogen transfer between aminoboranes and amine-boranes

Ir-catalyzed (20 °C) or thermal (70 °C) dehydrocoupling of the linear diborazane MeNH2-BH2-NHMe-BH3 led to the formation of poly- or oligoaminoboranes [MeNH-BH2]x (x = 3 to >1000) via an initial redistribution process that forms MeNH 2?BH3 and also transient MeNH=BH2, which exists in the predominantly metal-bound and free forms, respectively. Studies of analogous chemistry led to the discovery of metal-free hydrogenation of the B=N bond in the "model" aminoborane iPr2N=BH2 to give iPr2NH?BH3 upon treatment with the diborazane Me3N-BH2-NHMe-BH3 or amine-boranes RR′NH?BH3 (R, R′ = H or Me).