@article{pittir17968,
          volume = {51},
          number = {7},
           month = {February},
          author = {DP Curran and A Boussonni{\`e}re and SJ Geib and E Lac{\^o}te},
           title = {The parent borylene: Betwixt and between},
         journal = {Angewandte Chemie - International Edition},
           pages = {1602 -- 1605},
            year = {2012},
             url = {http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/17968/},
        abstract = {Still elusive: The reduction of dimethylimidazol-2-ylidene dichloroborane by sodium naphthalenide has been suggested to provide a borylene that cycloadds to naphthalene to make a borirane. Evidence has been provided that this borirane instead arises from coupling of a boryl radical and sodium naphthalenide. In contrast, reduction of 1,3-bis(2,6-diisopropylphenyl)imidazol-2-ylidene dichloroborane and the related dimesityl derivative provide novel C-H insertion products that may have arisen from a borylene. Copyright {\copyright} 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH \& Co. KGaA, Weinheim.}
}