文摘
Complete −CH2CH2– dehydrogenation of 1,2-dimethyl-1,2-BN-cyclohexene (1) was achieved using a Pd/C catalyst in a gas-phase microreactor. Arrhenius analysis yielded an activation energy (Ea) of 10.3 ± 0.3 kcal mol–1 and a pre-exponential factor (A) of 2.2 ± 0.2 (log A), respectively. These terms reflect a lesser kinetic favorability in comparison to those determined for all-carbon dimethylcyclohexene (Ea = 8.6 ± 0.3 kcal mol–1, log A = 3.6 ± 0.1). Despite being isostructural and isoelectronic with a C═C bond, the B–N bond of 1 thus appears to confer a different measure of activity with respect to Pd-catalyzed −CH2CH2– dehydrogenation.