“…While the vast majority of unsymmetrical borylenes of the type (CAAC)(L)BR are formed exclusively as a single (Z) or (E) isomer, depending on the relative sterics of L and R, [19,25] a similar, thermally induced, reversible isomerization has been observed only recently for the first time in a (CAAC,PMe 3 )-stabilized borylborylene, where it was likely induced by the thermal lability of PMe 3 . [26] In the absence of a stabilizing Lewis base the twofold reduction of 1 R with KC 8 in benzene resulted in a color change to intense blue and a new downfield-shifted 11 B NMR resonance around 32 ppm. After workup, dark blue crystals of the bis(CAAC)-stabilized thiazaborolo[5,4-d]thiazaboroles 3 Me and 3 Cy were isolated in 38 % and 67 % yield, respectively.…”