Photoswitching of the Lewis acidity of a catecholborane bearing an azo group based on the change in coordination number of boron

Organic Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 3909-3911

  Kano, Naokazu ^a   Yoshino, Junro ^a   Kawashima, Takayuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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EID: 24944558511     PISSN: 15237060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ol051337e     Document Type: Article

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24. 3, Z = 4, MW = 369.00, T = 120 K, R1(I > 2σ(I)) = 0.045, wR2-(all data) = 0.0939, GOF = 0.898. The unit cell contains two independent molecules of (E)-4b, which have a similar conformation around the boron atom.
25. Data in parentheses are those for another independent molecule.
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