@article {47644,
	title = {Deoxygenative hydroboration of primary and secondary amides: a catalyst-free and solvent-free approach},
	journal = {Chemical Communications},
	volume = {57},
	year = {2021},
	month = {OCT },
	pages = {10596-10599},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {In contrast to the recent reports on catalytic hydroboration of amides to amines with pinacolborane (HBpin), a simple catalyst-free and solvent-free method for the hydroboration of a variety of amides has been realized. To get the mechanistic insights, DFT calculations have been performed.},
	issn = {1359-7345},
	doi = {10.1039/d1cc04148g},
	author = {Kumar, Rohit and Bisai, Milan Kumar and Jain, Shailja and Vanka, Kumar and Sen, Sakya S.}
}
@article {47422,
	title = {Diverse reactivity of carbenes and silylenes towards fluoropyridines},
	journal = {Chemical Communications},
	volume = {57},
	year = {2021},
	month = {MAY },
	pages = {4428-4431},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {<p>The reaction of IDipp with C5F5N led to functionalization of all three carbon atoms of the imidazole ring with HF2- as the counter-anion (1). Reactivity with 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoropyridine gives only C-F bond activation leaving C-H bonds intact (5b). The reaction of SIDipp with C5F5N in the presence of BF3 afforded the ring cleavage product (3). Analogous reactions with silylene led to oxidative addition at the Si(II) center.</p>},
	issn = {1359-7345},
	doi = {10.1039/d1cc01401c, Early Access Date = MAR 2021},
	author = {Kundu, Gargi and Ajithkumar, V. S. and Bisai, Milan Kumar and Tothadi, Srinu and Das, Tamal and Vanka, Kumar and Sen, Sakya S.}
}
@article {47086,
	title = {Diverse reactivity of hypersilylsilylene with boranes and threecomponent reactions with aldehyde and HBpin},
	journal = {Inorganic Chemistry},
	volume = {60},
	year = {2021},
	month = {FEB },
	pages = {1654-1663},
	type = {Article},
	abstract = {<p>The recently reported hypersilylsilylene PhC-(NtBu)(2)SiSi(SiMe3)(3) (1) reacts with BH3, 9-BBN, and PhBCl2 to yield the respective Lewis acid base adducts 2-4, respectively. Compound 4 undergoes isomerization to form a ring expansion product 5. The same silylene was found to initially form an adduct with HBpin (6) and subsequently isomerized to 7 via the rupture of the B-H bond of HBpin (7), where the hydride was bound to the carbon atom of the amidinate ligand and the Bpin unit was attached to the silicon center. Surprisingly, the reaction of 1 with HBcat results in PhC(NtBu)(2)Bcat (8). Subsequently, we have shown that HBcat forms the same product when it reacts with related silylene PhC(NtBu)(2)SiN(SiMe3)(3) (1{\textquoteright}). With all of these reactions in hand, we ponder if silylene can activate two small molecules at one time. In this work, we delineate the three-component reactions of silylenes 1 and 1{\textquoteright} with 4-fluorobenzaldehyde and HBpin, which afforded unusual coupling products, 9 and 10, respectively. Note that 9 and 10 were prepared from the cleavage of the B-H and C=O bonds by silylene in a single reaction and are the first structurally attested Si-C-O-B coupled products.</p>
},
	issn = {0020-1669},
	doi = {10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c03137},
	author = {Bisai, Milan Kumar and Swamy, V. S. V. S. N. and Raj, K. Vipin and Vanka, Kumar and Sen, Sakya S.}
}
