Development of zinc borates designed for functionalized hard nucleophiles in the coupling reaction with allylic alcohol derivatives

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4039(98)01638-4

Zinc borates 3 (R(T) = aryl, alkenyl), prepared from the boronate esters 1 and MeZnCl, were developed for the title reaction. Thus, reaction of the allylic acetates 6a-c with the aryl borates 3a-f and the alkenyl borates 3g,h in the presence of NiCl₂