B-B bond activation and NHC ring-expansion reactions of diboron(4) compounds, and accurate molecular structures of B2(NMe2)4, B2eg2, B2neop2 and B2pin2.
Eck, Martin; Würtemberger-Pietsch, Sabrina; Eichhorn, Antonius; Berthel, Johannes H. J.; Bertermann, Rüdiger; Paul, Ursula S. D.; Schneider, Heidi; Friedrich, Alexandra; Kleeberg, Christian; Radius, Udo; Marder, Todd B.; Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003) 46 (2017) 3661–3680; doi:10.1039/c7dt00334j

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 B-B bond activation and NHC ring-expansion reactions of diboron(4)
 compounds, and accurate molecular structures of B2(NMe2)4, B2eg2, B2neop2
 and B2pin2.
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