Boronate esters using

Borylation is the photochemically or thermally promoted conversion of substrates with C-H bonds into boronate esters using bis(pinacol)diborane(4) (B2pin2) or pinacolborane (HBpin) reagents (Scheme 1) [16-35]. The selectivity for methyl C-H bonds and the versatility of organoboron reagents [36, 37] give alkane borylation potential for use in synthetic contexts. 

The boronate esters used for Suzuki reactions can be synthesized from commercially available alkyl-, vinyl-, and arylboronic acids. Alkyl and vinyl boronate esters are also synthesized by the hydroboration of double and triple bonds, similar to the hydrobora-tion of alkenes and alkynes in Chapters 8 and 9. Note that the boron atom generally adds to the less substituted end of a double or triple bond. Also, the B and H add to the same side of a triple bond (syn addition) to give a trans alkenylboronate ester. 

Reduction of a-chloro boronic esters using sodium hydride and DMSO has been reported to give clean conversion to the dechlori-nated product. The combination of lanthanide chloride catalysts... 

The general formula for boric acid esters is B(OR)2. The lower molecular weight esters such as methyl, ethyl, and phenyl are most commonly referred to as methyl borate [121 -43-7] ethyl borate [130-46-9J, and phenyl borate [1095-03-0] respectively. Some of the most common boric acid esters used in industrial appHcations are Hsted in Table 1. The nomenclature in the boric acid ester series can be confusing. The lUPAC committee on boron chemistry has suggested using trialkoxy- and triaryloxyboranes (5) for compounds usually referred to as boric acid esters, trialkyl (or aryl) borates, trialkyl (or aryl) orthoborates, alkyl (or aryl) borates, alkyl (or aryl) orthoborates, and in the older Hterature as boron alkoxides and aryloxides. CycHc boric acid esters, which are trimeric derivatives of metaboric acid (HBO2), are known as boroxines (1). 

From Boron Halides. Using boron haUdes is not economically desirable because boron haUdes are made from boric acid. However, this method does provide a convenient laboratory synthesis of boric acid esters. The esterification of boron haUdes with alcohol is analogous to the classical conversion of carboxyUc acid haUdes to carboxyUc esters. Simple mixing of the reactants at room temperature or below ia a solvent such as methylene chloride, chloroform, pentane, etc, yields hydrogen haUde and the borate ia high yield. 

One year later Van der Eycken and Dehaen described the smooth microwave-assisted borylation of 4, 5, 6 and 7-bromo-lff-indole using PdCl2(dppf) as a precatalyst and KOAc as a base (Scheme 30) [48]. With 5, 6, and 7-bromo-lH-indole, DMSO was used as solvent at a temperature of 150 °C (with a set power of 150 W) for 17-27 min, resulting in the corresponding boronate esters in good yields. For 4-bromo-lH-indole, DME gave a better result at the same temperature (with a set power of 250 W). 

Boronic esters, RB(OR )2 react with methoxy(phenylthio)methyllithium, LiCH(OMe)SPh, to give salts, which, after treatment with HgCl2, and then H2O2, yield aldehydes.This synthesis has been made enantioseiective, with high ee values (>99%), by the use of an optically pure boronic ester, for example ... 

The protocol offers a direct and efficient method for the synthesis of the boronic ester in the solid phase, which hitherto met with little success using classical methodology (Scheme 1-42). A solid-phase boronate (113 [155], 114 [156]) is quantitatively obtained by treating a polymer-bound iodoarene with the diboron (82). The subsequent coupling with haloarenes furnishes various biaryls. The robot synthesis or the parallel synthesis on the surface of resin is the topic of further accounts of the research. 

These oxazolidinones can be acylated and converted to the lithium, boron, tin, or titanium enolates by the same methods applicable to ketones and esters. For example, when they are converted to boron enolates using di-n-butylboron triflate and triethyl-amine, the enolates are the Z-stereoisomers.125... 

Boronate esters have been used for the preparation of polyunsaturated systems such as retinoic acid esters. 

The cyclic five- and six-membered boronate esters are used frequently. Their systematic names are 1,3,2-dioxaborolane and 1,3,2-dioxaborinanes, respectively. 

The directive effect of allylic hydroxy groups can be used in conjunction with chiral catalysts to achieve enantioselective cyclopropanation. The chiral ligand used is a boronate ester derived from the (VjA jA N -tetramethyl amide of tartaric acid.186 Similar results are obtained using the potassium alkoxide, again indicating the Lewis base character of the directive effect. 

Fig. 18. Cooperative closed dimer assembled using boronic esters as well as zinc-pyridine coordination.

Perez-Fuertes et al.6 8 have suggested the possibility of using the three-component chiral derivatizing approach for prediction of the absolute configuration of amines. Comparison of aH NMR spectra has shown significantly more deshielded signals of (S,S)-imino-boronate esters, derivative of a-amino esters than (S,R) diastereomers. 

In 2011, Hartwig and coworkers reported the total synthesis of taiwaniaquinol B (55, Scheme 11.9), a member of a family of diterpenoids that are derived from the abietane skeleton [36]. A key aspect of the Hartwig synthesis of taiwaniaquinol B was the use of the iridium-catalyzed borylation reaction to accomplish the C(5) functionalization of resorcinol derivative 53. This regioselectivity for the overall bromination is complementary to that which would be obtained using a standard electrophilic aromatic substitution (EAS) reaction. In the transformation of 53 to 54, a sterically controlled borylation was first accomplished, which was then followed by treatment of the boronic ester intermediate with cupric bromide to... 

Similarly, we anticipate that boronic ester 52 should prove highly useful for the synthesis of other lycodine-derived Lycopodium alkaloid pseudodimers including complanadines D and E (see Scheme 11.2) as well as unnatural analogues for biological studies. This is the direction of our ongoing research in this area. 

Iron chelators can also be used to selectively bind iron in areas where oxidative stress is observed, thereby preventing the iron from taking part in Fenton reactions without interfering with normal iron homeostasis. Charkoudian et al. have developed boronic acid and boronic ester masked prochelators, which do not bind metals unless exposed to hydrogen peroxide (237,238). The binding of these chelators to iron(III) prevents redox cycling. Similar studies of these systems have been performed by a separate group (239,240). 

Another useful method for generating various IV-allylhydroxylamines is the reaction between vinyl boronic ester of pinacol and nitrone in the presence of dimethylzinc (655). 

The use of N-bromosuccinimide resulted in very complex mixtures and not the expected a-haloboranes. Apparently, the succinimide moiety may have acted as a base, causing various side reactions [81—85]. However, a-haloboronic esters are much more stable than a-halotrialkylboranes. Halogenation of boriozirconocene bimetallics 18 based on boronic esters proceeded very smoothly, affording the expected a-bromoboronic esters 35 (Scheme 7.11) [52],... 

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