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SUBMITTER: Hasenbeck M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7003781 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20191210 4
Dehydrogenation of ammonia borane by sterically encumbered pyridones as organocatalysts is reported. With 6-tert-butyl-2-thiopyridone as the catalyst, a turnover frequency (TOF) of 88 h<sup>-1</sup> was achieved. Experimental mechanistic investigations, substantiated by DLPNO-CCSD(T) computations, indicate a mechanistic scenario that commences with the protonation of a B-H bond by the mercaptopyridine form of the catalyst. The reactive intermediate formed by this initial protonation was observed ...[more]