A new mechanism of H2 activation is reported to occur on a carbene-ligated rhodathiaborane that features metal–thiaborane bifunctional synergistic effects. The key is the creation of vacant coordination sites by an isonido-nido structural transformation leading to the heterolytic H–H bond splitting.
B. Calvo, R. Macías, V. Polo, M. J. Artigas, F. J. Lahoz and L. A. Oro, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 9863 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC45880F
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