relation: http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/17968/ title: The parent borylene: Betwixt and between creator: Curran, DP creator: Boussonnière, A creator: Geib, SJ creator: Lacôte, E description: 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 © 2012 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. date: 2012-02-13 type: Article type: PeerReviewed format: text/plain language: en rights: attached identifier: http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/17968/1/licence.txt identifier: Curran, DP and Boussonnière, A and Geib, SJ and Lacôte, E (2012) The parent borylene: Betwixt and between. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 51 (7). 1602 - 1605. ISSN 1433-7851 relation: 10.1002/anie.201107238