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Upstream product

• 124562-04-5 (Z)-1-(2-phenylethenyl)-4-(trifluoromethyl)benzene 
• 455-19-6 4-Trifluoromethylbenzaldehyde 
• 87100-28-5 pinacol benzylboronate 
• 28557-00-8 phenylzinc chloride 
• 591-51-5 phenyllithium 

Downstream Products

• 135733-76-5 1-((1S,2S)-1,2-Dibromo-2-phenyl-ethyl)-4-trifluoromethyl-benzene 
• 135733-74-3 1-((1S,2R)-1,2-Dibromo-2-phenyl-ethyl)-4-trifluoromethyl-benzene 
• 124562-04-5 (Z)-1-(2-phenylethenyl)-4-(trifluoromethyl)benzene 
• 1149-56-0 (E)-4-trifluoromethylstilbene 

Relevant academic research and scientific papers

Enantiomerically Enriched α-Borylzinc Reagents by Nickel-Catalyzed Carbozincation of Vinylboronic Esters

In this paper is described a synthesis of enantiomerically enriched, configurationally stable organozinc reagents by catalytic enantioselective carbozincation of a vinylboronic ester. This process furnishes enantiomerically enriched α-borylzinc intermediates that are shown to undergo stereospecific reactions, producing enantioenriched secondary boronic ester products. The properties of the intermediate α-borylzinc reagent are probed and the synthetic utility of the products is demonstrated by application to the synthesis of (-)-aphanorphine and (-)-enterolactone.

Chemoselective Benzylation of Aldehydes Using Lewis Base Activated Boronate Nucleophiles

A benzylation of aldehydes using primary and secondary benzylboronic acid pinacol esters is reported. Activation of the boronic ester with s-butyllithium rendered it nucleophilic toward aldehydes. The activated nucleophile chemoselectively transfers the benzyl group over the sec-butyl group, providing excellent yields of the benzylated products. 11B NMR experiments were performed to study the mechanism of this transformation.

Pd-Catalyzed Conjunctive Cross-Coupling between Grignard-Derived Boron “Ate” Complexes and C(sp2) Halides or Triflates: NaOTf as a Grignard Activator and Halide Scavenger

Catalytic enantioselective conjunctive cross-couplings that employ Grignard reagents are shown to furnish an array of nonracemic chiral organoboronic esters in an efficient and highly selective fashion. The utility of sodium triflate in facilitating this reaction is two-fold: it enables “ate” complex formation and overcomes catalytic inhibition by halide ions.

Regioselective ring-opening reaction of unsymmetrical 2,3-diaryl epoxides via catalytic hydrogenolysis with Pd(0)EnCatTM

A series of unsymmetrical 2,3-diaryl epoxides were hydrogenated under transfer-hydrogenation conditions using the polyurea-encapsulated palladium catalyst [Pd(0)EnCatTM]. The position of the cleaved C-O bond was determined by 1H NMR analysis of the ring-opened products derived from the epoxide, in which one of the two benzylic methyne protons is deuterated. The ratio of ring-opened products of the unsymmetrically substituted 2,3-diaryl epoxides was affected by the degree of the steric bulkiness on the aromatic ring. Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart New York.

1,2-Diarylethanols by alternative regioselective reductive ring-opening of 2,3-diaryloxiranes

Non-symmetrical ￡rans-2,3-diaryloxiranes have been regioselectively opened by catalytic hydrogenation over Pd/C, NaBH4/Pd and [Cp 2TiCl]/H2O. Although in the catalytic hydrogenation reactions the epoxides were mainly opened at the β-carbon with respect to the substituted aryl ring in all cases, with the [Cp2TiCl]/H 2O system the regioselectivity was affected by the electronic properties of the aryl residues, the epoxides being opened on the carbon bearing the most electron-releasing or the least electron-withdrawing group. With the NaBH4/Pd system different regioisomers were obtained depending on the substituents. Starting from enantioenriched epoxides, no loss of optical purity was observed in the alcohols formed.

Regioselectivity of the rhodium-catalyzed hydroboration of vinyl arenes: Electronic twists and mechanistic shifts

Any substituent does it: The hydroboration of vinyl arenes with pinacol borane (HBPin) and cationic rhodium complexes selectively placed the boron proximal to the aryl rather than phenyl ring, regardless of whether this ring bears electron-donating or electron-withdrawing substituents. In competition experiments between styrene and various vinyl arenes, preferential hydroboration also occured at the substituted arene (see scheme). Hammett plots indicate a break in the mechanism. (Chemical Equation Presented).