Boron, migration organoboranes

This reaction also proceeds well with a variety of other substituted stilbene derivatives. Thus, the boranes obtained by hydroboration of E and Z stilbenes 80 undergo the thermal boron migration with excellent diastereoselectivity leading to the anti and syn organoboranes 81. After amination of 81 the corresponding benzylic amines (anti and syn 82) were obtained in 66 and 40 % yield and with diastereoselectivity better than 90 10 between C(l) and C(2) (Scheme 16) [7, 8,13],... 

Step 2 The 7C complex rearranges to an organoborane Hydrogen migrates from boron to carbon carrying with it the two electrons m its bond to boron Development of the transition state for this process is shown m 2(a) and its transformation to the organoborane is shown m 2(b)... 

Moderate yields of acids and ketones can be obtained by paHadium-cataly2ed carbonylation of boronic acids and by carbonylation cross-coupling reactions (272,320,321). In an alternative procedure for the carbonylation reaction, potassium trialkylborohydride ia the presence of a catalytic amount of the free borane is utilized (322). FiaaHy, various tertiary alcohols including hindered and polycycHc stmctures become readily available by oxidation of the organoborane iatermediate produced after migration of three alkyl groups (312,313,323). 

Organoboranes can also be used to construct carbon-carbon bonds by several other types of reactions that involve migration of a boron substituent to carbon. One such reaction involves a-halo carbonyl compounds.20 For example, ethyl bromoac-etate reacts with trialkylboranes in the presence of base to give alkylated acetic acid derivatives in excellent yield. The reaction is most efficiently carried out with a 9-BBN derivative. These reactions can also be effected with (3-alkenyl derivatives of 9-BBN to give (3,y-unsaturated esters.21... 

The mechanism of these alkylations involves a tetracoordinate boron intermediate formed by addition of the enolate of the a-bromo ester to the organoborane. The migration then occurs with displacement of bromide ion. In agreement with this mechanism, retention of configuration of the migrating group is observed.23... 

The oxidation by amine oxides provides a basis for selection among non-equivalent groups on boron. In acyclic organoboranes, the order of reaction is tertiary > secondary > primary. In cyclic boranes, stereoelectronic factors dominate. With 9-BBN derivatives, for example, preferential migration of a C—B bond which is part of the bicylic ring structure occurs. 

Dimethylbut-l-ene (24), with an initial boron distribution of 94% primary (25) and 6% secondary (26), undergoes isomerization to essentially pure primary organoborane 27. Exceedingly rapid migration of the boron from the internal 29 to the terminal position 30 occurs in the isomerization of the borane derivative from 2,4,4-trimethylpent-2-ene (28). These results clearly establish that the boron atom readily migrates past a single branch, but not past a double branch (Scheme 3). 

The normal synthetic pathway for hydroboration is reaction with an ambiphilic nucleophile of which the simplest example is hydroperoxide ion. This elicits a 1,2-migration of an alkyl group from boron to oxygen with concurrent loss of hydroxide ion. The step occurs with essentially complete retention of configuration. In similar vein, ambiphilic species with the structure NH2X may be used in amination, so that the overall reaction is an addition of ammonia to the alkene with the regio- and chemoselectivity driven by the hydroboration step. A majority of reactions of organoboranes can be rationalized in terms of these ionic mechanistic pathways, or closely related protocols (Scheme 2). 

The reaction of trialkylboranes with iV-chloroalkylamines can be used to synthesize a wide variety of functionally substituted dialkylamines in good yields [66,67], and it complements the synthesis of secondary amines via the reaction of trialkylboranes with organic azides. The reaction is analogous to the reaction of chloramine with organoboranes, and presumably occurs via an anionotropic migration of an alkyl group from boron to nitrogen (Scheme 24). 

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