“…[1] As ar esult, diborenes, unlike alkenes, are excellent reducinga gents, capable of acting as either i) four-electron reducinga gents towards elemental sulfur,b yf ully cleaving the B=Bd ouble bond and forming aB 2 S 3 heterocycle, [19] or ii)t woelectron reducing agentst owards the heaviere lemental chalcogens by forming three-membered B 2 Er ings (E=Se, Te ), [20] or even iii)o ne-electronr educing agents towards the tropylium cation and 1-mesityl-2,3,4,5-tetraphenylborole (MesBC 4 Ph 4 )t o form diborene radical cations. [10], [11] The substitution pattern of the diborene core plays as ignificant role in tuning this redox reactivity (Figure 2). Thus switching from PMe 3 to the better s-donor and slightly better p-acceptor I Me ,w hilst retaining mesityl or duryl anionic substituents, induces an increasei nt he energy of the HOMO concomitant with al oweringo ft he energy of the LUMO, thereby reducingt he HOMO-LUMO gap by around0 .8 eV.…”