The transition metal-catalysed hydroboration reaction

SJ Geier, CM Vogels, JA Melanson… - Chemical Society …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The use of transition metals to catalyse the addition of hydridoboranes to unsaturated
organic molecules was initially realised several decades ago. Although this area of …

Recent advances in asymmetric borylation by transition metal catalysis

J Hu, M Ferger, Z Shi, TB Marder - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Chiral organoboronates have played a critical role in organic chemistry and in the
development of materials science and pharmaceuticals. Much effort has been devoted to …

Catalytic enantioselective desymmetrization reactions to all-carbon quaternary stereocenters

XP Zeng, ZY Cao, YH Wang, F Zhou, J Zhou - Chemical Reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
This Review summarizes the advances in the construction of all-carbon quaternary
stereocenters via catalytic enantioselective desymmetrization of prochiral and meso …

Asymmetric synthesis of secondary and tertiary boronic esters

BSL Collins, CM Wilson, EL Myers… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐racemic chiral boronic esters are recognised as immensely valuable building blocks in
modern organic synthesis. Their stereospecific transformation into a variety of functional …

Design and optimization of catalysts based on mechanistic insights derived from quantum chemical reaction modeling

S Ahn, M Hong, M Sundararajan, DH Ess… - Chemical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Until recently, computational tools were mainly used to explain chemical reactions after
experimental results were obtained. With the rapid development of software and hardware …

Enantiospecific and iterative Suzuki–Miyaura cross-couplings

JPG Rygus, CM Crudden - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The Suzuki–Miyaura cross-coupling reaction has emerged as one of the most powerful
methods for the construction of carbon–carbon bonds. Though most widely utilized for the …

Desymmetrization of Vicinal Bis (boronic) Esters by Enantioselective Suzuki–Miyaura Cross-Coupling Reaction

M Zhang, PS Lee, C Allais, RA Singer… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The development of an enantioselective catalytic Suzuki–Miyaura reaction that applies to
meso 1, 2-diborylcycloalkanes is described. This reaction provides a modular route to …

Organotrifluoroborates: Another branch of the mighty oak

GA Molander - The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2015 - ACS Publications
Over the past two decades, organotrifluoroborates have evolved from being chemical
curiosities to important reagents for the elaboration of organic molecules. Aside from their …

Diverse asymmetric hydrofunctionalization of aliphatic internal alkenes through catalytic regioselective hydroboration

Y **, JF Hartwig - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2016 - ACS Publications
We report a two-step strategy for diverse hydrofunctionalizations of aliphatic internal alkenes
with high regioselectivity and enantioselectivity. This process comprises a copper-catalyzed …