Boron-Based Super Electron Donors for Transition-Metal-Free Radical Borylation (A02)

• Subject Area: Inorganic Molecular Chemistry - Synthesis and Characterisation
• Term: since 2026
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 551403841

Project A02 “Boron-Based Super Electron Donors for Transition-Metal-Free Radical Borylation” focuses on the development of boron-based super electron donors (boron-SEDs) and the application of boron-SEDs as catalysts for transition metal-free borylations. Boron-SEDs are highly promising new reagents for catalytic transformations in general and borylations in particular. The project aims to use especially stable – bottleable – boron-SEDs for the introduction of boryl groups using diboranes(4) as starting materials.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1762: Boron as property-determining element
• Applicant Institution: Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Max C. Holthausen; Professor Dr. Qing Ye