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A bulky polymer-supported frustrated Lewis pair: Dihydrogen cleavage with poly(methylenephosphine)-tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane

2025· article· en· W4414462635 on OpenAlex
Kurt F. Hoffmann, Aaron A. Mitchell, Kobe R. Tickner, Derek P. Gates

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Bibliographic record

VenueEuropean Polymer Journal · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldChemistry
TopicOrganoboron and organosilicon chemistry
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaSorbonne UniversitéUniversity of British ColumbiaDeutsche ForschungsgemeinschaftMatemaattis-luonnontieteellinen tiedekunta, Helsingin Yliopisto
KeywordsLewis acids and basesCleaveFrustrated Lewis pairMonomerPhosphoniumPhosphinePolymer

Abstract

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• Demonstrated H 2 activation by poly(methylenephosphine)s and B(C 6 F 5 ) 3 . • Characterization aided by molecular model compounds. • Hydrogen-loaded polymer can be utilized to reduce imines. Polymeric frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) have recently attracted attention due to their potential to enhance recyclability or catalytic activity when compared to their monomeric counterparts. In this work, we explore Lewis basic inorganic polymers, namely poly(methylenephosphine)s ( PMP s), as novel platforms for polymeric FLPs. To aid in characterization of the polymers, molecular model FLPs, MesP(R)–CHPh 2 [R = Me ( 1a ), n-Bu ( 1b ), CHPh 2 ( 1c )] and B(C 6 F 5 ) 3 , were employed. Each successfully activated H 2 to afford [MesPH(R)–CHPh 2 ][HB(C 6 F 5 ) 3 ] ( 2a-c ). Following a similar strategy, PMP ( M n = 12,850 Da, Đ = 1.08), produced by the living anionic polymerization of MesP=CPh 2 , was shown to effectively cleave H 2 . Specifically, approximately 50 % of the phosphine moieties in PMP were converted to the corresponding phosphonium borate ionomer. This hydrogen-loaded polymer successfully reduced imine, PhC(H)=N( t- Bu), thereby reforming PMP and demonstrating proof-of-concept for PMP s as polymeric Lewis bases in FLP chemistry.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.064
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.000

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Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.216
Teacher spread0.209 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it