Photoinduced Single‐Electron Transfer as an Enabling Principle in the Radical Borylation of Alkenes with NHC–Borane

PJ **a, D Song, ZP Ye, YZ Hu, JA **ao… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A photoinduced SET process enables the direct B− H bond activation of NHC–boranes. In
contrast to common hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) strategies, this photoinduced reaction …

Chiral dihydroxytetraphenylene-catalyzed enantioselective conjugate addition of boronic acids to β-enaminones

EZ Yao, GL Chai, P Zhang, B Zhu… - Organic Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We report the (S)-2, 15-Cl2-DHTP-catalyzed enantioselective conjugate addition of organic
boronic acids to β-enaminones, providing the corresponding addition products in high yields …

Enantioselective conjugate addition of alkenyl trifluoroborates to alkenyl-substituted benzimidazoles catalyzed by chiral binaphthols

B Mao, ZW Chen, JF Wang, CH Zhang, ZQ Du… - Organic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The enantioselective organocatalytic conjugate alkenylation of β-substituted alkenyl
benzimidazoles afforded β-stereogenic 2-alkyl benzimidazole derivatives in excellent …

Asymmetric double-conjugate addition of alkenylboronic acids to dienones catalyzed by chiral diols

P Zhang, GL Chai, EZ Yao, LX Guo, XY Liu… - Organic Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Asymmetric conjugate addition of organic boronic acids to dienones was successfully
achieved by using chiral 3, 3′-disubstituted-BINOLs or hydroxytetraphenylenes as the …

Enantioselective conjugate addition of boronic acids to α, β-Unsaturated 2-Acyl imidazoles catalyzed by chiral diols

GL Chai, P Zhang, EZ Yao, J Chang - The Journal of Organic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Herein, we report the enantioselective conjugate addition of organic boronic acids to α, β-
unsaturated 2-acyl imidazoles using (R)-3, 3′-I2-BINOL as the catalyst. The catalytic …

Organocatalytic enantioselective conjugate alkynylation of β-aminoenones: access to chiral β-alkynyl-β-amino carbonyl derivatives

JF Wang, X Meng, CH Zhang, CM Yu, B Mao - Organic Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Readily available potassium alkynyltrifluoroborates were used for organocatalytic
asymmetric conjugate alkynylation of β-enaminones. The interception of a modified …

Mechanism of Asymmetric Homologation of Alkenylboronic Acids with CF3-Diazomethane via Borotropic Rearrangement

M Biosca, KJ Szabó, F Himo - The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2024 - ACS Publications
Density functional theory calculations have been performed to investigate the mechanism for
the BINOL-catalyzed asymmetric homologation of alkenylboronic acids with CF3 …

Enantioselective organocatalytic conjugate addition in a tandem synthesis of δ-substituted cyclohexenones and four-step total synthesis of penienone

PK Peng, JA May - Organic Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
A bisperfluorotoluyl–BINOL catalyzed conjugate addition of trifluoroborate salts to doubly
vinylogous esters and aldol condensation synthesized chiral δ-substituted cyclohexenones …

Chiral Binaphthol-Catalyzed Enantioselective Conjugate Addition of Alkenyl and Arylboronic Acids to α,β-Unsaturated Cyclic N-Sulfonyl Ketimines

YJ Hou, YL Wang, J Chang… - The Journal of Organic …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The chiral binaphthol-catalyzed enantioselective conjugate addition of alkenylboronic acids
and heteroarylboronic acids to cyclic N-sulfonyl ketimines is reported, providing the 1, 4 …

Highly Enantioselective Chiral Diol-Catalyzed Conjugate Addition of Boronic Acids to α, β-Unsaturated Trifluoromethyl Ketones

YJ Hou, L Zhao, GL Chai, K Zhong… - The Journal of Organic …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The (R)-3, 3′-(3, 5-(CF3) 2-C6H3) 2-BINOL-catalyzed enantioselective conjugate addition
of organic boronic acids to α, β-unsaturated 1, 1, 1-trifluoromethyl ketones affords …