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1,1-Hydroboration and a Borane Adduct of Diphenyldiazomethane: A Potential Prelude to FLP-N2 Chemistry

scientific article published on 6 November 2017

1,1-Phosphinoboration of diazomethanes

scientific article published on 20 September 2019

9-Borabicyclo[3.3.l]nonane-induced Friedel-Crafts benzylation of arenes with benzyl fluorides

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

A Room-Temperature-Stable Phosphanorcaradiene

scientific article published on 11 June 2018

A Tale of Two Elements: The Lewis Acidity/Basicity Umpolung of Boron and Phosphorus

scientific article published on 13 February 2017

A Transient Vinylphosphinidene via a Phosphirene-Phosphinidene Rearrangement.

scientific article published on 22 December 2017

A model for C–F activation by electrophilic phosphonium cations

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A recyclable metal-organic framework for ammonia vapour adsorption

scientific article published on 22 July 2020

Accessing Frustrated Lewis Pair Chemistry from a Spectroscopically Stable and Classical Lewis Acid-Base Adduct

scientific article published on 17 April 2018

Activation of H2 and Et3SiH by the Borinium Cation [Mes2B]+: Avenues to Cations [MesB(μ-H)2(μ-Mes)BMes]+ and [H2B(μ-H)(μ-Mes)B(μ-Mes)(μ-H)BH2]

scientific article published on 05 April 2019

Acyl-Phosphide Anions via an Intermediate with Carbene Character: Reactions of K[PtBu2 ] and CO

scientific article published on 06 February 2019

Addition reactions and diazomethane capture by the intramolecular P-O-B FLP: tBu2POBcat

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Air- and water-stable Lewis acids: synthesis and reactivity of P-trifluoromethyl electrophilic phosphonium cations

scientific article published on 5 January 2018

Alkali Metal Species in the Reversible Activation of H2

scientific article published on 20 July 2018

An arene-stabilized η5-pentamethylcyclopentadienyl antimony dication acts as a source of Sb+ or Sb3+ cations

scientific article published on 28 September 2020

An imine-gallium Lewis pair stabilized oxophosphinidene via an unexpected phosphirene rearrangement

scientific article published on 22 December 2017

An intermolecular FLP System derived from an NHC-coordinated trisilacyclopropylidene

scientific article published on 21 September 2020

An umpolung of Lewis acidity/basicity at nitrogen by deprotonation of a cyclic (amino)(aryl)nitrenium cation

scientific article published on 01 April 2018

Avenue to phosphaalkenes from Ph3GePCO

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Base-Stabilized [PO]+ /[PO2 ]+ Cations

scientific article published on 06 November 2019

Borane-Stabilized Isomeric Dimers of the Phosphaethynolate Anion

scientific article published on 18 September 2017

C-C Coupling of Benzyl Fluorides Catalyzed by an Electrophilic Phosphonium Cation

scientific article published on 30 May 2016

C-F Bond Activation Mediated by Phosphorus Compounds

scientific article published on 26 March 2019

C-F Bond Activation by Silylium Cation/Phosphine Frustrated Lewis Pairs: Mono-Hydrodefluorination of PhCF3 , PhCF2 H and Ph2 CF2.

scientific article published on 8 November 2017

Carbonyl and olefin hydrosilylation mediated by an air-stable phosphorus(iii) dication under mild conditions

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Catalytic Hydrodefluorination of C−F Bonds by an Air-Stable PIII Lewis Acid

scientific article published on 17 April 2018

Catalytic double hydroarylation of alkynes to 9,9-disubstituted 9,10-dihydroacridine derivatives by an electrophilic phenoxyphosphonium dication

scientific article published on 15 November 2017

Contemporary Research in Boron Chemistry

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Design considerations for chiral frustrated Lewis pairs: B/N FLPs derived from 3,5-bicyclic aryl piperidines

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Diphospha-Ureas from the Phosphaketene Ph3 GePCO

scientific article published on 08 July 2019

Double Phosphinoboration of CO2 : A Facile Route to Diphospha-Ureas

scientific article published on 23 August 2019

Electrophilic boron carboxylate and phosphinate complexes

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

FLP catalysis: main group hydrogenations of organic unsaturated substrates

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

FLP reactivity of [Ph3C]+ and (o-tolyl)3P and the capture of a Staudinger reaction intermediate.

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FLP reduction and hydroboration of phenanthrene o-iminoquinones and α-diimines.

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Facile Cleavage of the P=P Double Bond in Vinyl-Substituted Diphosphenes

scientific article published on 06 December 2018

Facile access to unsymmetrically substituted tellurium-boron based heterocycles

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Frustrated Lewis Pair Oxidation Permits Synthesis of a Fluoroazaphosphatrane, [FP(MeNCH2CH2)3N]+

scientific article published on 29 November 2018

Frustrated Lewis pair-catalyzed double hydroarylation of alkynes with N-substituted pyrroles

scientific article published on 17 January 2020

Gast Editorial: Celebrating Canadian Chemistry.

scientific article published on 24 April 2017

Group 13-derived radicals from α-diimines via hydro- and carboalumination reactions

scientific article published on 13 August 2020

Halogenated triphenylgallium and -indium in frustrated Lewis pair activations and hydrogenation catalysis.

scientific article published in August 2017

Homolytic cleavage of peroxide bonds via a single electron transfer of a frustrated Lewis pair

scientific article published on 21 May 2018

Hydroboration of Phosphaalkynes by HB(C6 F5 )2.

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Hydroboration without a B-H bond: reactions of the borinium cation [(iPr2N)2B]+ with alkyne, nitrile, ketone and diazomethane

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Hydrofunctionalisation of an Aromatic Triphosphabenzene

scientific article published on 03 September 2019

Imidazole-stabilized, electron-deficient boron cations

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Improving the Global Electrophilicity Index (GEI) as a Measure of Lewis Acidity

scientific article published on 13 November 2018

Insertion reactions of the C-B-N-substituted borinium cation [MesBNiPr2]

scientific article published on 24 November 2020

Interactions of C−F Bonds with Hydridoboranes: Reduction, Borylation and Friedel-Crafts Alkylation

scientific article published on 04 October 2018

Interception of intermediates in phosphine oxidation by mesityl nitrile-N-oxide using frustrated Lewis pairs

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Isolable Anionic, Neutral and Cationic Radicals from Reactions of  N,N'-dimesityldiamidocarbene and Lewis Acids

scientific article published on 09 March 2020

Lewis and Brønsted basicity of phosphine-diazomethane derivatives

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Lithium Dicyclohexylamide in Transition-Metal-Free Fischer-Tropsch Chemistry

scientific article published on 05 January 2021

Metal-free pincer ligand chemistry polycationic phosphonium Lewis acids

scientific article published on 7 March 2017

N-Heterocyclic Carbene Derived 3-Azabutadiene as a π-Base in Classic and Frustrated Lewis Pair Chemistry

scientific article published on 30 April 2019

N-Heterocyclic carbene stabilized parent sulfenyl, selenenyl, and tellurenyl cations (XH+, X = S, Se, Te).

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Nitrogen-Based Lewis Acids Derived from Phosphonium Diazo Cations

scientific article published on 09 July 2018

Nitrogen-Based Lewis Acids: Synthesis and Reactivity of A Cyclic (Alkyl)(Amino)Nitrenium Cation

scientific article published on 3 February 2018

Oligomerization of phosphaalkynes mediated by bulky N-heterocyclic carbenes: avenues to novel phosphorus frameworks

scientific article published on 27 August 2019

P(v) dications: carbon-based Lewis acid initiators for hydrodefluorination

scientific article published on 10 July 2019

Phosphaaluminirenes: Synthons for Main Group Heterocycles

scientific article published on 08 October 2019

Phosphinoboration of Diazobenzene: Intramolecular FLP Synthon for PN2 B-Derived Heterocycles

scientific article published on 04 September 2019

Probing steric influences on electrophilic phosphonium cations: a comparison of [(3,5-(CF3)2C6H3)3PF]+ and [(C6F5)3PF]+

scientific article published on 01 August 2018

Quantifying the efficiency of CO2 capture by Lewis pairs

scientific article published on 20 February 2017

Radicals derived from Lewis acid/base pairs

scientific article published on 01 July 2019

Reactions of B (o-tolyl) with Boranes: Assembly of the Pentaborane(9), HB[B(o-tolyl)(μ-H)]

scientific article published on 6 April 2021

Reactions of Boron-Derived Radicals with Nucleophiles

scientific article published on 27 December 2016

Reactions of Frustrated Lewis Pairs with Chloro-Diazirines: Cleavage of N=N Double Bonds

scientific article published on 12 September 2022

Reactions of carbene-stabilized borenium cations

scientific article published on 22 January 2020

Reductive Coupling and Loss of N2 from Magnesium Diazomethane Derivatives

scientific article published on 08 June 2018

Remote Stereochemistry of a Frustrated Lewis Pair Provides Thermal and Photochemical Control of Reactivity

scientific article published on 19 June 2018

Reversible 1,1-hydroaluminations and C–H activation in reactions of a cyclic (alkyl)(amino) carbene with alane

scientific article published on 01 July 2018

Reversible Intramolecular Cycloaddition of Phosphaalkene to an Arene Ring

scientific article published on 09 May 2019

Selective Catalytic Frustrated Lewis Pair Hydrogenation of CO<sub>2</sub> in the Presence of Silylhalides

scientific article published in 2021

Single Electron Delivery to Lewis Pairs: An Avenue to Anions by Small Molecule Activation

scientific article published on 27 June 2017

Single Electron Transfer to Diazomethane-Borane Adducts Prompts C-H Bond Activations

scientific article published on 30 October 2019

Small Molecule Activation with N,NR-MIC Platinum Complexes

scientific article published on 13 January 2017

Steric Influence on Reactions of Benzyl Potassium Species with CO

scientific article published on 15 November 2021

Stoichiometric Reactions of CO2 and Indium-Silylamides and Catalytic Synthesis of Ureas

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Stoichiometric and catalytic isomerization of alkenylboranes using bulky Lewis bases

scientific article published on 01 August 2017

Synthesis and oxidation of phosphine cations.

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Synthesis and reactions of 4H-1,4-telluraborine

scientific article published on 12 December 2017

Synthesis of Urea Derivatives from CO2 and Silylamines

scientific article published on 20 March 2019

Synthesis of a Carbodicyclopropenylidene: A Carbodicarbene based Solely on Carbon.

scientific article published on 30 March 2016

Synthesis of acyl(chloro)phosphines enabled by phosphinidene transfer

scientific article published on 07 February 2019

Taming a silyldiium cation and its reactivity towards sodium phosphaethynolate

scientific article published on 15 November 2018

The Arene-Stabilized η5 -Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl Arsenic Dication [(η5 -Cp*)As(toluene)]2

scientific article published on 18 March 2019

The Non-Ancillary Nature of Trimethylsilylamide Substituents in Boranes and Borinium Cations

scientific article published on 11 May 2022

The Reactivity of Isomeric Nitrenium Lewis Acids with Phosphines, Carbenes and Phosphide

scientific article published on 02 November 2020

The global electrophilicity index as a metric for Lewis acidity

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The phosphinoboration of carbodiimides, isocyanates, isothiocyanates and CO2.

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Use of Trifluoromethyl Groups for Catalytic Benzylation and Alkylation with Subsequent Hydrodefluorination

scientific article published on 11 December 2015

Using frustrated Lewis pairs to explore C-F bond activation

scientific article published on 08 January 2020

Zinc-Containing Radical Anions via Single Electron Transfer to Donor-Acceptor Adducts.

scientific article published on 7 February 2018