For some time I have been meaning to write about this as few seem to know the facts behind the use of tris(pentafluorophenyl)boron (aka barf) as an activator for metallocenes.\u00a0 As I\u2019ve mentioned earlier, 2013 is going to be monumentous year, but it will only be the beginning of a boulder rolling down the mountain.\u00a0 So here it is, the inventor of alkide abstraction from metallocenes using barf is no other than (trumpet sound) Xinmin Yang.\u00a0 That is right, a Chinese graduate student was the actual inventor; however, my source says Dr. Ewen claims to have invented this independently at about the same time (but the claim was highly questionable).\u00a0 We should not be too overly surprised by this as many great inventions are made by the students of the professors whom dispense crappy laser pointers and profess the benefits of slave labor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For some time I have been meaning to write about this as few seem to know the facts behind the use of tris(pentafluorophenyl)boron (aka barf) as an activator for metallocenes.\u00a0 As I\u2019ve mentioned earlier, 2013 is going to be monumentous … Continue reading