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2023-01-01
Regier, Margo E., Smit, Karen V., Chalk, Thomas B., Stachel, Thomas, Stern, Richard A., Smith, Evan M., Foster, Gavin L., Bussweiler, Yannick, Debuhr, C., Burnham, Antony D., Harris, Jeff W., Pearson, D. Graham
Abstract Boron is a quintessential crustal element but its conspicuous presence in diamond – a mantle mineral – raises questions about potential subduction pathways for boron and other volatiles. It has been a long-standing goal to characterize the isotopic composition of boron in blue,...
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Boron-Mediated Lignocellulose Degradation. Design, Synthesis, Properties, and Applications of Boron-Containing Naphthoids
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Lewis acidity is a molecule’s tendency to accept a pair of electrons. Trivalent boron compounds are archetypical Lewis acids due to the presence of a vacant p orbital, leading to many uses in organic synthesis. For example, boron trihalides use their intrinsic Lewis acidity to accept ether oxygen...
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Fall 2022
The work in this Thesis describes significant progress made in the field of frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) at the intersection between modern main group chemistry and materials chemistry. Mainly, this work focuses on the use of an intramolecular phosphine-borane FLP (namely, o-iPr2P(C6H4)BCy2 or...
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Lewis Base Adducts of Borafluorene: En Route to Polymers and the Discovery of New Luminescent Adducts
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A series of novel Lewis base monoadducts of 9-bromo-9-borafluorene (BrBFl•LB, LB = IPr, IPrCH2, PPh3) and the bisadduct [(DMAP)2BFl]Br were prepared and underwent reactivity studies in the pursuit of incorporating a borafluorene unit into a polymeric scaffold for the sensing of nucleophiles in...
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Fall 2015
Organic chemistry has its foundations in the 19th century; since, it has grown into a number of industries affecting our daily lives such as the manufacture of goods and life saving pharmaceuticals. The need for new and increasingly efficient synthetic methods has grown in response to the...
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Synthesis, Structure and Properties of a Novel “Frustrated” Benzoxaborole and the Role of Boron in Bioconjugation
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Chapter 2 describes an optimized 7-step successful synthesis of a first of its kind permanently open-form ortho-hydroxyalkyl arylboronic acid, otherwise known as a “frustrated benzoxaborole”, with a columnless purification and complete structure elucidation. This novel compound is completely...