@article{8a45b16cb54e4ddaa18cead51f688e5e,
title = "Bifunctional rhodium complex featuring a silyl1,8-naphthyridine si,n-chelate ligand: Cooperation of metal and pendant base for capture and bond-weakening of BH3",
abstract = "A dirhodium complex bearing a newly-designed silyl1,8-naphthyridine ligand (napySi), [Rh(κ2Si,N-napySi)(H)(μ-Cl)]2 (1), was synthesized. Reaction of complex 1 with excess BH3• SMe2 afforded a mononuclear borane adduct Rh[κ4Si,N,H,HnapySi(BH3)](H)Cl (2), revealing that rhodium and the uncoordinated naphthyridine nitrogen cooperatively captured BH3 and weakened its two BH bonds. Complex 2 contains a Rh(μ-H)2B core composed of two RhHB 3-center 2-electron (3c-2e) bonds where one RhH interaction is considerably weakened by strong trans-influence of the silyl ligand moiety.",
keywords = "1,8-Naphthyridine backbone, Bifunctional complex, Silyl ligand",
author = "Keita Sato and Takashi Komuro and Hisako Hashimoto and Hiromi Tobita",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP15H03782, JP16K05714, and JP19K05490 from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). We also acknowledge the Research and Analytical Center for Giant Molecules, Tohoku University, for mass spectroscopic measurements and elemental analysis.",
year = "2020",
month = nov,
doi = "10.1246/CL.200489",
language = "English",
volume = "49",
pages = "1431--1434",
journal = "Chemistry Letters",
issn = "0366-7022",
publisher = "Chemical Society of Japan",
number = "11",
}