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Treatment of pyridines, quinoline and methylthiopyrazine with the frustrated Lewis pair TMPMgCl·BF(3) (1) leads to organotrifluoro borates which react readily with a variety of aromatic aldehydes in the absence of a transition metal catalyst.
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