• closedAccess   Strongly Coordinating Ligands To Form Weakly Coordinating Yet Functional Organometallic Anions 

      Fisher, Steven; McArthur, Scott G.; Tej, Varun; Lee, Sarah E.; Chan, Allen L.; Banda, Isaac; Gregory, Aaron; Berkley, Kevin; Tsay, Charlene; Rheingold, Arnold L.; Guisado-Barrios, Gregorio; Lavallo, Vincent American Chemical Society (2019-12-05)
      Weakly coordinating anions (WCAs) are generally tailored to act as spectators with little or no function. Here we describe the implementation of strongly coordinating dianionic carboranyl N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) to ...