@article{pittir17700,
          volume = {1},
          number = {1},
           month = {January},
          author = {MA Tehfe and J Monot and M Malacria and L Fensterbank and JP Fouassier and DP Curran and E Lac{\^o}te and J Lalev{\'e}e},
           title = {A water-compatible NHC-borane: Photopolymerizations in water and rate constants for elementary radical reactions},
         journal = {ACS Macro Letters},
           pages = {92 -- 95},
            year = {2012},
             url = {http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/17700/},
        abstract = {Rate constants for important elementary reactions of 2,4-dimethyl-1,2,4- triazol- 3-ylidene borane (1) and its derived boryl radical have been measured in the presence and absence of water. Reactions including H-abstraction by tBuO, and onward reactions of the derived radical with methyl acrylate (addition), iodopropane (halogen abstraction), and an iodonium salt (oxidation) are unaffected by the presence of a high concentration (1.5 M) of water. Extending these results, borane (1) has been found to be an efficient new co-initiator for the visible light photopolymerization of monomers in the presence of both air and water. {\copyright} 2011 American Chemical Society.}
}