Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Catalytic, Regiospecific End??Functionalization of Alkanes: Rhenium??Catalyzed Borylation under Photochemical Conditions

H Chen, JF Hartwig

Index: Chen, Huiyuan; Hartwig, John F. Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 1999 , vol. 38, # 22 p. 3391 - 3393

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Abstract

Abstract Approaching a Holy Grail? A regioselective functionalization of alkanes occurs with commercially available rhenium catalysts and borane reagents under photochemical conditions [Eq.(1)]. Mechanistic studies indicate that the regioselectivity results from a direct thermal reaction of a photochemically generated 16–electron boryl complex with alkane.