Organic Letters 2015-04-03

Synthesis of vinyl boronates from aldehydes by a practical boron-Wittig reaction.

John R Coombs, Liang Zhang, James P Morken

Index: Org. Lett. 17(7) , 1708-11, (2015)

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Abstract

A highly stereoselective boron-Wittig reaction between stable and readily accessible 1,1-bis(pinacolboronates) and aldehydes furnishes a variety of synthetically useful di- and trisubstituted vinyl boronate esters.