Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Dr. Caleb Martin, from Baylor University, will be presenting a seminar titled, " Exploiting the Diverse Chemistry of Boroles to Access Unsaturated Boracycles". Abstract: Although boroles (1) were first reported in 1969, their reactivity has remained virtually unexplored until recently. The unique combination of a Lewis acidic tricoordinate boron center, a diene, and a strained planar BC4 five-membered ring in a single molecule coupled with the four p-electron anti-aromatic state results in highly diverse reactivity for boroles.1 Our groups’ efforts [...]