Carbon-boron bond

Hydroboration is a reaction m which a boron hydride a compound of the type R2BH adds to a carbon-carbon bond A carbon-hydrogen bond and a carbon-boron bond result... 

Step 3 Carbon migrates from boron to oxygen displacing hydroxide ion Carbon migrates with the pair of electrons m the carbon-boron bond these become the electrons m the carbon-oxygen bond... 

In the next step, one of the borane-hydrogens is transferred to a sp -carbon center of the alkene and a carbon-boron bond is formed, via a four-membered cyclic transition state 6. A mono-alkyIborane R-BH2 molecule thus formed can react the same way with two other alkene molecules, to yield a trialkylborane R3B. In case of tri- and tctra-substituted alkenes—e.g. 2-methylbut-2-ene 7 and 2,3-dimethylbut-2-ene 9—which lead to sterically demanding alkyl-substituents at the boron center, borane will react with only two or even only one equivalent of alkene, to yield a alkylborane or mono alky Iborane respectively ... 

Examination of this anomaly revealed that the carbon-carbon double bond was also reacting, producing a carbon-boron bond with loss of an equivalent of hydride. 

Remarkable carbon-boron bond-forming reactions are catalyzed by iridium complexes and proceed at room temperature with excellent regioselectivity, governed by steric factors. Heteroarenes are borylated in the 2-position and this reaction is generally tolerant of halide substituents on the arene (Equations (87) and (88)). 

As an example of the selective reactivity of borazirconocene alkenes, their hydrolysis was examined [1]. The carbon—zirconium bond is more reactive than the carbon—boron bond towards various electrophiles, and so hydrolysis can be expected to occur with preferential cleavage of the former bond. Since hydrolysis of alkenylzirconocenes is known to proceed with retention of configuration [4,127—129], a direct utility of 45 is the preparation of (Z)-1-alkenylboronates 57 (Scheme 7.17) [12]. Though the gem-dimetalloalkenes can be isolated, in the present case it is not necessary. The desired (Z)-l-alkenylboronates can be obtained in a one-pot procedure by hydrozirconation followed by hydrolysis with excess H20. The reaction sequence is operationally simple and is compatible with various functional groups such as halides, acetals, silanes, and silyloxy protecting groups [12]. 

Enyne 112a having a boron moiety on the alkyne gives vinyl boron 113a [Eq. (6.83)], whose carbon-boron bond can be converted to a carbon-carbon bond. Enyne metathesis followed by Diels-Alder reaction of the resulting diene with DMAD gives tricyclic compound 114 [Eq. (6.84)]. ... 

Trialkyl derivatives of boron, and in fact many other molecules such as boroxines with carbon-boron bonds, react readily with oxygen. The initial products are peroxy derivatives with BOOR bonds, which tend to react further to form borate esters. The ease of the initial reaction is shown by the fact that reported examples of vinyl polymerization induced by trialkyl borons require oxygen and are actually radical processes induced by the boron oxygen reaction or intermediate peroxides (7). 

The synthetic method has several useful features beyond high stereoselectivity. A chiral CHX unit (X = Cl, Br) is inserted into the carbon-boron bond of a boronic ester, and the resulting chain-extended a-halo boronic ester is treated with a nucleophile Y- to displace the halide and form a chiral a-substituted boronic ester1-3. 

Thus, in the case of alkenylboronates which possess a more covalent carbon—boron bond, it was established that allylzincation followed a classical zinc-ene process143. By... 

Metalated ferrocenes have served as valuable intermediates for the synthesis of a number of other derivatives. Treatment of lithiated ferrocenes with tributyl borate followed by hydrolysis leads to ferroceneboronic acid (XXXIII) as well as the diboronic acid (73). Ferroceneboronic acid, like benzeneboronic acid, is readily cleaved by cupric bromide or cupric chloride to form the corresponding halo derivatives (XXXIV). Ferrocene-l,l -diboronic acid reacts in the same manner, and either one or two carbon-boron bonds can be cleaved. Further reactions of this type have led to a variety of mixed dihaloferrocenes (73, 75). 

The syn steroselectivity was based on the assumption that the oxidation step—the transformation of the carbon-boron bond to carbon-oxygen bond—took place with retention of configuration. More recent NMR studies of alkylboranes formed in hydroborating labeled alkenes indeed confirmed the validity of the earlier conclusion.351... 

Treatment of [4.S ]-4-/-butyl-l-mcthylcyclohcxcnc with borane-THF followed by oxidation with F Ch-NaOH gives a mixture of [ 1.S , 2.S ,5.S ]-5-/-butyl-2-methylcyclohcxan-1 -ol and [ 1 A,2A,5.S -5-/-butyl-2-methylcyclohexan-l-ol and no other diastereomers. There are two steps in this process—addition to give an organoborane and oxidation which cleaves the carbon-boron bond to an alcohol. 

Hydroboration is widely employed to obtain an anti-Markovnikov alcohol from an olefin. Addition of diborane to the double bond produces an organoborane intermediate. Three equivalents of the olefin are needed to consume the BH3 and a trialkylborane is produced. Reaction with basic H202 converts the carbon-boron bond to a carbon oxygen bond. This process is effective and widely used. 

Carbon-based 7]7-ligands, in molybdenum carbonyls, 5, 483 Carbon-boron bond formation... 

Oxidation of alkylboranes by alkaline hydrogen peroxide produces alcohols. The reaction is essentially quantitative and has been successfully applied to a wide variety of alkylboranes (Equations B2.3-5). It is important to note that the stereochemistry of the carbon atom attached to the boron atom is retained in this conversion of a carbon-boron bond to a carbon-oxygen bond (Equation B2.5). 

Retention of configuration of the alkyl group is consistent with the concerted cyclic mechanism used to explain why carboxylic acids alone protolytically cleave carbon-boron bonds (Equation B2.13). 

The pathway followed by the reaction is depicted in Figure B4.1. Methoxide anion adds to the a-haloalkenylborane generated by hydroboration of the haloalkyne, and induces migration of an alkyl group from the boron atom to the alkenyl carbon atom. The migration displaces halide anion from the alkenyl carbon atom and the centre is inverted. Finally protonolysis of the carbon-boron bond by acetic acid releases the (/f)-alkcne. 

Reaction of boronic esters, RB(OR )2, with dichloromethyllithium, LiCHCl2, inserts the CHC1 unit into the carbon-boron bond of the boronic ester. This is known as boronic ester homologation. If boronic esters derived from homochiral alcohols are used in this reaction, then new homochiral centres may be generated as will be illustrated below. 

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