The Dynamic Covalent Chemistry of Amidoboronates: Tuning the rac5 /rac6 Ratio via the B-N and B-O Dynamic Covalent Bonds

Patrick Harders; Thomas Griebenow; Artjom Businski; Anton J Kaus; Lorenz Pietsch; Christian Näther; Anna J McConnell

doi:10.1002/cplu.202200085

The Dynamic Covalent Chemistry of Amidoboronates: Tuning the rac₅ /rac₆ Ratio via the B-N and B-O Dynamic Covalent Bonds

Chempluschem. 2022 May;87(5):e202200085. doi: 10.1002/cplu.202200085. Epub 2022 Mar 22.

Authors

Patrick Harders¹, Thomas Griebenow¹, Artjom Businski¹, Anton J Kaus¹, Lorenz Pietsch¹, Christian Näther², Anna J McConnell¹

Affiliations

¹ Otto Diels Institute of Organic Chemistry, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Otto-Hahn-Platz 4, 24098, Kiel, Germany.
² Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Max-Eyth-Straße 2, 24118, Kiel, Germany.

PMID: 35315980
DOI: 10.1002/cplu.202200085

Abstract

Invited for this month's cover is the group of Anna J. McConnell and Christian Näther from Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany. The cover picture shows an amidoboronate puzzle divided into four quarters that represent four possible amidoboronates. How do these amidoboronates interconvert? The right combination of aniline (yellow circles) and catechol (grey and purple circles) pieces solves this conundrum and the amidoboronates interconvert via dynamic covalent B-N (left to right) and B-O bonds (top to bottom). More information can be found in the Research Article by Anna J. McConnell and co-workers.