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Acids: Preparation, Applications in Organic Synthesis and
the catalyst and 3.0 euiqv Na2CO3 as the base, the desired
products 6a and 6b were obtained in 78% and 71% yields
(Table 3). Though 3,5-disubstituted aminothiophenes can be
generally prepared by Gewald reaction from suitable
substituted acetaldehydes, our Suzuki approach gave access to
3,5-disubstituted variants, for which the corresponding
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Our borylated thiophenes also proved to be useful building
blocks in the synthesis of borylated bisheterocycle. Recent
studies23 showed that substituted thieno[2,3-b]pyridine is an
important motif in the medicinal chemistry. Borylation of
thieno[2,3-b]pyridines has been underexplored and to the best
of our knowledge, there are no previous publications covering
this topic. We wondered if the borylated thieno[2,3-
b]pyridines could be made by condensing borylated
aminothiophene with ketones. We initiated our study by
treating 4c with cyclohexanone, using trimethylclhorosilane24
as the Lewis acid (Table 4). The cyclization reaction was
finished in 1 hour and 8a was isolated in excellent yield (95%).
Several ketones were examined and it was found that the
reaction was influenced by the steric effect. Hindered ketones
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(
8c
,
8e) require extended reaction time (12 hours) and yields
7b) gave excellent
are relatively lower while cyclic ketones (7a
,
yields, regardless of the ring size. No protodeborylation was
observed during the reaction progress for all borylated starting
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In summary, we have successfully developed a series of stable,
previously inaccessible 3-cyanoallyl boronates. These
compounds have allowed us to generate a series of borylated
thiophenes in good to excellent yields. The utility of the
resulting thiophene products as key intermediates toward
synthetically challenging borylated bromothiophene and
thieno[2,3-b]pyridines has been demonstrated. The successful
cross-coupling of borylated aminothiophenes gave access to
3,5-disubstituted aminothiophenes, which are of interest in
medicinal chemistry. Further applications of electron-poor
allylboronates in synthesis are now enabled and are under
intense investigation in our laboratory.
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Acknowledgements
We thank the Natural Science and Engineering Research
Council (NSERC) for funding. S.J.K. thanks Ontario Graduate
Scholarship for funding. Dr. Milan Bergeron-Brlek is also
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