9-Boraanthracene Derivatives Stabilized by N-Heterocyclic Carbenes

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  • Funding for this work was provided by NSERC of Canada and the Xerox Research Foundation. The authors would like to thank Prof. Belinda Heyne for stimulating discussions.

Abstract

2009: A boraanthracene odyssey: General routes to boraanthracene derivatives—long proposed, but never observed—are disclosed, along with the structural and photophysical properties of these compounds and their remarkable reactivity towards oxygen.

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