1,3,2,5-Diazadiborinine featuring nucleophilic and electrophilic boron centres

• Main Authors: Wu, Di, Kong, Lingbing, Li, Yongxin, Ganguly, Rakesh, Kinjo, Rei
• Other Authors: School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/98980; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/38560
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The seminal discovery in 1865 by Kekulé that benzene nucleus exists with cyclic skeleton is considered to be the beginning of aromatic chemistry. Since then, a myriad of cyclic molecules displaying aromatic property have been synthesized. Meanwhile, borazine (B3N3H6), despite the isostructural and i...