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Alkoxyboration: Ring-closing addition of B-O σ bonds across alkynes
Hirner, Joshua J.,Faizi, Darius J.,Blum, Suzanne A.
supporting information, p. 4740 - 4745 (2014/04/17)
For nearly 70 years, the addition of boron-X σ bonds to carbon-carbon multiple bonds has been employed in the preparation of organoboron reagents. However, the significantly higher strength of boron-oxygen bonds has thus far precluded their activation for addition, preventing a direct route to access a potentially valuable class of oxygen-containing organoboron reagents for divergent synthesis. We herein report the realization of an alkoxyboration reaction, the addition of boron-oxygen σ bonds to alkynes. Functionalized O-heterocyclic boronic acid derivatives are produced using this transformation, which is mild and exhibits broad functional group compatibility. Our results demonstrate activation of this boron-O σ bond using a gold catalysis strategy that is fundamentally different from that used previously for other boron addition reactions.
A simple "palladium-free" synthesis of phenyleneethynylene-based molecular materials revisited
Lydon, Donocadh P.,Porres, Laurent,Beeby, Andrew,Marder, Todd B.,Low, Paul J.
, p. 972 - 976 (2007/10/03)
Nucleophilic attack of acetylide anions at the two carbonyl moieties of para-quinones readily affords the corresponding diols. Subsequent reduction with stannous chloride affords a number of useful compounds, including 1,4-bis[(trimethylsilyl)ethynyl]benzene, 1,4-bis[(trimethylsilyl)ethynyl] naphthalene and 9,10-bis[(trimethylsilyl)ethynyl]anthracene. Sequential attack by different acetylide anions followed by reduction provides a useful route to differentially substituted compounds including 1-[(4-nonyloxyphenyl)ethynyl]-4- (phenylethynyl)benzene, a new luminescent liquid-crystalline material. The Royal Society of Chemistry and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 2005.
