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 (E-a) 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 (E-a = 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.
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 (E-a) 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 (E-a = 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.