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A metal-free landmark

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The synthesis and isolation of a silane adduct of an electrophilic boron species provides insight into the mechanism of metal-free catalytic reductions based on frustrated Lewis pairs.

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Figure 1: The long-awaited isolation and crystallographic characterization of a borane–silane adduct 2 provides insight into the mechanism of reductions catalysed by frustrated Lewis pairs.

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  1. Douglas W. Stephan is in the Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada,

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Stephan, D. A metal-free landmark. Nature Chem 6, 952–953 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2093

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