Invited for the cover of this issue are the groups of Jennifer Love and Laurel Schafer from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. The cover image shows a grain field, which grows as a function of phosphoramidate ligand functionalizati...
Invited for the cover of this issue are the groups of Jennifer Love and Laurel Schafer from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. The cover image shows a grain field, which grows as a function of phosphoramidate ligand functionalization. The article discusses C(sp3)–H functionalization of an iridium(III)–phosphoramidate complex using monohydroboranes.
We did not foresee the possibility of ligand C(sp3)–H bond activation, which made the discovery rather exciting…
Read more about the story behind the cover in the Cover Profile and about the research itself on page 2639 ff (DOI:10.1002/ejic.201601518).