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Generation of a transient base-stabilised arylalumylene for the facile deconstruction of aromatic molecules

Debabrata Dhara, Arumugam Jayaraman, Marcel Härterich, Rian D. Dewhurst, Holger Braunschweig

Chemical Science · 2022 · 50 citations · 37 references

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Attempts to form a base-stabilised arylalumylene by reducing an NHC-coordinated diiodoterphenylalane led to a masked dialumene. Reactivity studies showed it decouples to initially aimed arylalumylene, which easily deconstructs less reactive arenes.

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