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Martin Group @MartinGroupBU

Boron research group at Baylor University. Catalysis, Organic, Inorganic, and Materials Chemistry.

Joined August 2015
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Manjur and Ayesha’s paper titled “Silicon-Carbon Bond Cleavage from a Hydroboration Sequence” is now accepted and online in @InorgChemFront Congratulations! @IamMOAkram Check it out: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…

Silicon–carbon bond cleavage from a hydroboration sequence

The reactions of internal pyridyl/trialkylsilyl alkynes with the potent hydroboration reagent bis(1-methyl-ortho-carboranyl)borane (HBMeoCb2) results in unanticipated Si–Calkyl cleavage following a...

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Kanika’s paper titled “1,4-Bromoboration of Nitroalkenes” is accepted and online in @ChemCommun. A case where carborane substituents harness reactivity. Check it out here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…

1,4-Bromoboration of nitroalkenes

The selective 1,4-bromoboration of nitroalkenes occurs under mild conditions with a bromoborane featuring two 1-methyl-ortho-carborane substituents, BrBMeoCb2. The bromide is introduced on the...

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Ragene's paper on the reactivity of gold and copper acetylide with HBMeoCb2 is accepted and online @ChemCommun. Congratulations! thanks to the Shuford group for the collaboration! Check it out: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…

Reactivity of gold and copper acetylide with a secondary borane

Gold(i) triphenylphosphine phenylacetylide reacts with bis(1-methyl-ortho-carboranyl)borane to give a hydroboration product that is best described as an η2-1-borataallene gold complex. Contrarily,...

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Kanika's paper on investigating C-F and H-H frustrated Lewis pair reactivity with our strong secondary borane (HBMeoCb2) is accepted and online @InorgChem. Congratulations and thanks to the helpful reviewers! Check it out: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102…

Frustrated Lewis Pair Reactivity of Bis(1-methyl-ortho-carboranyl)borane

Carboranyl substituted boranes are attractive Lewis acids for frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) chemistry due to their tremendous bulk and high Lewis acidity. In FLP chemistry, secondary boranes are...

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Dinithi and Ayesha's paper on borole reactivity with Michler’s Ketone Versus Thioketone is now online in @Orgmet_ACS. Congrats! @Dinithi03314536 Check it out: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs…

Flash Communication: Reactions of Borole with Michler’s Ketone Versus Thioketone

In this work, we interrogate the reactivity of pentaphenylborole with 4,4′-bis(dimethylamino)benzophenone (Michler’s ketone) and its heavier congener, bis(dimethylamino)thiobenzophenone (Michler’s...

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Congratulations to Ragene on her successful PhD defense! @BaylorCBC @baylorgraduate
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A great tribute by Paul Hayes to the life and legacy of Steve Westcott @thewildtoads in @CanJChem. Canada research chair in @Boron_Chemistry. cdnsciencepub.com/doi/full/1…

A tribute to the life and legacy of Prof. Stephen A. Westcott

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Yijie's paper on reactions of iminophosphines with borafluorene is now online in @InorgChem. Congrats @YijieLivtec! Many thanks to our collaborators Leonardo and Oscar for their contributions. Check it out here: pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.102…

Reactions of Borafluorene with Iminophosphines: PN Insertion and Skeletal Editing to Phosphafluorene

The reactions of iminophosphines (Mes*N=PR, Mes* = 2,4,6-tri-tert-butylphenyl) with 9-phenyl-9-borafluorene resulted in the isolation of two distinct products. For an iminophosphine bearing a phenyl...

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Manjur’s paper on crystallizing and characterizing a boravinylidene is now online in @J_A_C_S. Congrats to @IamMOAkram and our collaborators Kirk French and Kevin Shuford! Check it out here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…

A Crystalline Boravinylidene from an Arrested Hydroboration Reaction

Boravinylidenes are intermediates in 1,1-hydroboration reactions of alkynes en route to vinyl boranes. Unlike transition metal-vinylidene complexes, boravinylidenes have hitherto, not been crystall...

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Our review on fluorenyl cations with @DuttonChemistry is now online in @ChemEurJ. Congrats to Kanika, Sameera, Ayesha, and Manjur! Check it out: chemistry-europe.onlinelibra…

Fluorenyl Cations: Synthesis and Reactivity

This review covers the history of fluorenyl cations from Deno's first report in 1954 on the parent fluorenyl cation to the present. The parent cation and most derivatives have only been observed as...

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Our paper examining Lewis acidity probes with boranes is now online in @ChemCommun Congrats to Sameera, Yijie, Madison, Ragene, and Manjur! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…

Müller versus Gutmann–Beckett for assessing the Lewis acidity of boranes

A 19F NMR spectroscopic probe, p-fluorobenzonitrile, is used to evaluate the relative Lewis acidity of boranes. The resulting scale is compared with the Gutmann–Beckett method which uses triethylph...

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Ayesha and Manjur's paper on dearomative borylation of indoles using our strong Lewis acid is now online in @DaltonTrans. Check it out here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
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Our perspective with @DuttonChemistry on cyclopentadienyl cations is now online in Chemical Science. Congrats to Sameera! pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…

Cyclopentadienyl cations

This perspective covers the chemistry of cyclopentadienyl cations from the first synthetic attempts generating transient variants to their successful isolation earlier this year. They are highly...

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Chem@Chem_CP
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Online now: The cyclotriborate trianion dlvr.it/TFQ0c7
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Our preview article highlighting the Kinjo group's recent synthesis of the cyclotriborate trianion is now online in @Chem_CP: sciencedirect.com/science/ar…

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Chemical Communications@ChemCommun
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New from our Pioneering Investigators collection ✨ 'Synthesis of phenanthrylboroles and formal nitrene insertion to access azaborapyrenes' by Caleb Martin and colleagues from @MartinGroupBU #OpenAccess 🔓 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…

Synthesis of phenanthrylboroles and formal nitrene insertion to access azaborapyrenes

Extended conjugation has been introduced into boroles but only on the 2,3- or 4,5-positions of the central BC4 core. In this work we synthesize phenanthrylboroles that also have conjugation on the...

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Our paper on new boroles and insertion to access BN-pyrenes is accepted and online in @ChemCommun. Congrats to @harie_zacharias, Ayesha and our colleagues @Uni_WUE. The work was facilitated by funding from @NSF and @AvHStiftung. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…
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Our paper on Carborane-Arene Fused Boracyclic Analogues of PAHs is now online in @ChemicalScience. Congrats to @YijieLivtec @DrTamilan @IamMOAkram! Check it out: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…

Carborane–arene fused boracyclic analogues of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons accessed by intram...

Arenes are 2D aromatics while dicarbadodecaborane clusters are branded as 3D aromatic molecules. In this work we prepare molecules that feature fused 2D/3D aromatic systems that represent boron-doped...

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Todd Hudnall@DrTodd_Hudnall
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BIG NEWS!!! The Hudnall Group will be relocating to @Baylor Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in August! I will miss friends and family at Texas State but am very excited to join @BaylorCBC for this next adventure! #maingroupchemistry #boron Stay Tuned!
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2023-24 Outstanding Graduate Research Productivity Awards. Congratulations Kanika Vashisth, Daniel Devore, Darren Gass, Malisha Welikala, & Alexandra Lubaev! @baylorgraduate @Trakselis @Liela_Romero @MartinGroupBU
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