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Iterative reactions of transient boronic acids enable sequential C-C bond formation.

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Peer-reviewed

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Battilocchio, Claudio  ORCID logo  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4601-8527
Feist, Florian 
Hafner, Andreas 
Simon, Meike 
Tran, Duc N 

Abstract

The ability to form multiple carbon-carbon bonds in a controlled sequence and thus rapidly build molecular complexity in an iterative fashion is an important goal in modern chemical synthesis. In recent times, transition-metal-catalysed coupling reactions have dominated in the development of C-C bond forming processes. A desire to reduce the reliance on precious metals and a need to obtain products with very low levels of metal impurities has brought a renewed focus on metal-free coupling processes. Here, we report the in situ preparation of reactive allylic and benzylic boronic acids, obtained by reacting flow-generated diazo compounds with boronic acids, and their application in controlled iterative C-C bond forming reactions is described. Thus far we have shown the formation of up to three C-C bonds in a sequence including the final trapping of a reactive boronic acid species with an aldehyde to generate a range of new chemical structures.

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0306 Physical Chemistry (incl. Structural), 0305 Organic Chemistry, 0302 Inorganic Chemistry

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Nat Chem

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1755-4330
1755-4349

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8

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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K009494/1)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/M004120/1)
We are grateful to Pfizer (C.B., D.M.A., D.C.B. and J.M.H.), the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German National Academic Foundation, F.F.), the Alexander-von-Humboldt foundation (A.H.), Erasmus+ (M.S.), the Swiss National Science Foundation (D.N.T.) and the EPSRC (S.V.L., grant n° EP/K009494/1 and EP/M004120/1) for financial support. We would also like to thank Dr Richard Turner for providing assistance throughout the development of the research programme.