Frustrated Lewis pair

Frustrated Lewis pair

In chemistry, a Frustrated Lewis pair is a compound or mixture containing a Lewis acid and a Lewis base that, because of steric hindrance, cannot combine to form an adduct. [Stephan, Douglas W. "Frustrated Lewis pairs": a concept for new reactivity and catalysis. "Org. Biomol. Chem." 2008, "6", 1535-1539. doi|10.1039/b802575b] Because of their "unquenched" reactivity, such systems are very reactive and are able to split the hydrogen molecule heterolytically, which makes them potentially useful as metal-free catalysts for hydrogenation reactions.

In the scheme below, compound 1 is has a frustrated Lewis pair: the lone pair on the phosphorus atoms cannot be donated to the boron atoms because of the large substituents on both atoms. However, when exposed to hydrogen at 1 atm, the zwitterionic compound 2 is formed. This hydrogen addition is reversible, and it is possible to transfer the activated hydrogen to a sterically hindered imine, which results in a catalytic cycle that produces the hydrogenated product, using only 0.05 equivalents of 1 as a catalyst.

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