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Ruthenium catalyzed hydroboration of terminal alkynes to Z-vinylboronates
Gunanathan, Chidambaram,Hoelscher, Markus,Pan, Fangfang,Leitner, Walter
, p. 14349 - 14352 (2012)
The nonclassical ruthenium hydride pincer complex [Ru(PNP)(H) 2(H2)] 1 (PNP = 1,3-bis(di-tert-butyl-phosphinomethyl) pyridine) catalyzes the anti-Markovnikov addition of pinacolborane to terminal alkynes yielding Z-vinylboronates at mild conditions. The complex [Ru(PNP)(H)2(HBpin)] 2 (HBpin = pinacolborane), which was identified at the end of the reaction and prepared independently, is proposed as the direct precursor to the catalytic cycle involving rearrangement of coordinated alkyne to Z-vinylidene as a key step for the apparent trans-hydroboration.