{"id":2881,"date":"2025-01-16T15:06:35","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T15:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/?p=2881"},"modified":"2025-05-19T15:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T14:09:13","slug":"monoatomic-boron0-complex-isolated-at-ambient-temperature-and-published-in-jacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/2025\/01\/16\/monoatomic-boron0-complex-isolated-at-ambient-temperature-and-published-in-jacs\/","title":{"rendered":"Monoatomic Boron(0) Complex Isolated at Ambient Temperature and Published in JACS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/\">SISC<\/a> cluster is excited to announce a major publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), resulting from a collaboration between Felipe Fantuzzi (University of Kent) and Conor Pranckevicius (University of British Columbia Okanagan). This groundbreaking work marks the first ambient-temperature isolation of a bottleable monoatomic boron(0) complex coordinated exclusively by neutral donor ligands.<\/p>\n<p>The study describes the synthesis and full characterisation of a two-coordinate L\u2082B\u2070 complex supported by cyclic (alkyl)(amino)carbene (CAAC) ligands. The neutral, paramagnetic boron(0) species was accessed via a straightforward reduction route and stabilised through strong \u03c0-accepting interactions. Further redox chemistry reveals a versatile reactivity profile: oxidation leads to a transient borylene, while further reduction yields a stable boride anion.<\/p>\n<p>Supported by density functional theory calculations, this work not only expands the known oxidation states of boron accessible under mild conditions, but also opens new avenues in low-valent main group chemistry, challenging traditional boundaries between metals and metalloids.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/abs\/10.1021\/jacs.4c14915\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SISC cluster is excited to announce a major publication in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), resulting from a collaboration between Felipe Fantuzzi (University of Kent) and Conor Pranckevicius (University of British Columbia Okanagan). This groundbreaking work marks the first ambient-temperature isolation of a bottleable monoatomic boron(0) complex coordinated exclusively by neutral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2050,"featured_media":2884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[616],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-highlights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2887,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2881\/revisions\/2887"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/sisc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}