Cyclic peroxides are highly reactive oxygen-containing species that play important roles in chemical synthesis. Now, the reaction between diazoboranes and triplet oxygen affords a family of cyclic dio...

Acenes are attractive molecular platforms with characteristic π-electron delocalization, resulting in exceptionally small HOMO–LUMO gaps, which makes them valuable for use in a variety of organic elec...

Borenium ions are tricoordinate boron cations of the type [LBR2]+, where L is a donor ligand. While the inherently reactive nature of these Lewis acidic species has been harnessed to advance bond acti...

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In recent years, neutral NHC-stabilized boryl radicals have been investigated as reactive species in various organic transformations. However, cationic boron radicals have been significantly less expl...

ConspectusBoron heterocycles represent an important subset of heteroatom-incorporated rings, attracting attention from organic, inorganic, and materials chemists. The empty pz orbital at the boron cen...

Although the activation of elemental sulfur by main group compounds is well-documented in the literature, the products of such reactions are often heterocyclic in nature. However, the isolation and ch...

A Lewis acidic carbodicarbene-stibenium ion mediates C(sp3)−H and C(sp)−H bond breaking of acetonitrile and terminal alkynes in the presence of an organic base. The resulting adducts were reacted wit...

Designing molecules that can undergo late-stage modifications resulting in specific optical properties is useful for developing structure-function trends in materials, which ultimately advance optoele...

Diazo compounds and organic azides are widely used as reagents for accessing valuable molecules in multiple areas of fundamental and applied chemistry. Their capacity to undergo versatile chemical tra...

Low-valent antimony and bismuth have emerged as novel platforms for achieving reversible small-molecule activation at main-group metals. Although various examples of oxidative addition reactions at mo...