Phenylboronate

Phenylboronic acid. The orientation of nitration in phenylboronic acid is very susceptible to changes in the medium (table 5.8). The high proportion of o-substitution in acetic anhydride is not attributable to a specific o-reaction, for the nt -ratios of the last tabulated pair of results are not constant. The marked change in the ratio was considered to be due to the formation in acetic anhydride of a complex, as illustrated below, which is 0 -orienting and activated as a result of the -t-1 effect. This species need only be formed in a small concentration to overwhelm... 

Substituents containing boron are of interest because of the possibility which the boron atom offers of conjugation of a vacant orbital with the 77-electrons of the benzene ring (—717). The case of phenylboronic acid has been discussed ( 5.3.4). 

Various phenols can be selectively hydroxymethylated at the ortho position by heating with paraformaldehyde and phenylboronic acid. 

Ether, water, phenylboronic acid. Cleavage occurs by transesterification. 

A/,A/ -3,5-Bis(trifluoromethyl)phenylboronic Acid Derivative, 594 A/-[Phenyl(pentacarbonylchromium- or-tungsten)]carbenyl, 595 A/-Copper or A/-Zinc Chelate, 595 18-Crown-6 Derivative, 596... 

Phenylboronic acid in particular has proved invaluable, since its complexes with cis-diols and -polyols have formed the basis... 

More recently, a double reductive ring closure of the dinitrodiphenylbenzene 139 with triethyl phosphite as the reducing agent has been reported to produce 3 in 59% yield (Scheme 18). The precursor 139 was prepared in excellent yield by Pd(0)-catalyzed coupHng of phenylboronic acid and 1,3-dibromo-4,6-dinitro-benzene (92JHC1237). 

The parent system 4 has also been jnepared employing a double reductive ring closure of a dinitrodiphenylbenzene derivative (Scheme 25). The required starting material, 195, was prepared using a palladium-catalyzed coupling of 1,4-dibromo-2,5-dinittobenzene with phenylboronic acid and after reaction with tri-ethylphosphite in hot tert-butylbenzene, 4 could be isolated in a moderate yield (92JHC1237). 

To overcome these problems with the first generation Brmsted acid-assisted chiral Lewis acid 7, Yamamoto and coworkers developed in 1996 a second-generation catalyst 8 containing the 3,5-bis-(trifluoromethyl)phenylboronic acid moiety [10b,d] (Scheme 1.15, 1.16, Table 1.4, 1.5). The catalyst was prepared from a chiral triol containing a chiral binaphthol moiety and 3,5-bis-(trifluoromethyl)phenylboronic acid, with removal of water. This is a practical Diels-Alder catalyst, effective in catalyzing the reaction not only of a-substituted a,/ -unsaturated aldehydes, but also of a-unsubstituted a,/ -unsaturated aldehydes. In each reaction, the adducts were formed in high yields and with excellent enantioselectivity. It also promotes the reaction with less reactive dienophiles such as crotonaldehyde. Less reactive dienes such as isoprene and cyclohexadiene can, moreover, also be successfully employed in reactions with bromoacrolein, methacrolein, and acrolein dienophiles. The chiral ligand was readily recovered (>90%). 

For the synthesis of a suitable arylboron compound, usually an aryl halide is converted to an aryllithium or aryl Grignard derivative, and then reacted with a trialkoxyborane to yield an arylboronic ester, e.g. the phenylboronic acid diisopropyl ester 13 from bromobenzene 11 ... 

A number of pentopyranoside phenylboronates are known already through the work of Ferrier and Prasad (26). The mobility of methyl... 

Our initial studies were directed towards the synthesis and characterization of phenylboronate esters derived from methyl 6-deoxy-/ -D-allopyranoside, methyl a-L-rhamnopyranoside, methyl -L-fucopyranoside, and methyl 6-deoxy-/ -D-glucopyranoside. Previous work (14) in this laboratory indicated that the reaction of triphenylboroxole and methyl... 

Reaction of methyl a-L-rhamnopyranoside with triphenylboroxole gave a syrupy boronate ester which was characterized as a crystalline phenyl-carbamate. Removal of the phenylboronic acid residue gave a product identified as methyl a-L-rhamnopyranoside 4-N-phenylcarbamate, since it was identical with that resulting from removal of the ketal group from methyl 2,3-O-isopr opylidene-a-L-rhamnopyranoside 4-N-phenylcarbamate (12). This establishes the structure of the original ester as methyl a-L-rhamnopyranoside 2,3-phenylboronate (24). 

The crystalline phenylboronate derived by similar treatment of methyl a-L-fucopyranoside was shown to possess the 3,4-cyclic structure (25). This assignment is based on oxidation of compound 25 with methyl sulfoxide-acetic anhydride and the chromatographic identification of... 

A careful assessment of the constitution of compound 10 led to the development of a rather efficient strategy featuring the Diels-Alder reaction (see Scheme 3). Although the unassisted intermole-cular reaction between 3-hydroxy-2-pyrone (16)23 and a,/ -unsatu-rated ester 17 is unacceptable in terms of both regioselectivity and chemical yield, compounds 16 and 17 combine smoothly in refluxing benzene and in the presence of phenylboronic acid to give fused bicyclic lactone 12 (61% yield) after workup with 2,2-... 

Treatment of naphthalenc-2,3-dicarbonitriles with dichlorophenylboron gives only very low yields of phenylboron sub-2,3-naphthalocyanines.68... 

Although there are several reports in the literature on boron-mediated amide formations, the boron reagents had to be used in stoichiometric amounts.1-4-5-6-7-8-9 Recently, Yamamoto et al. presented the first truly catalytic method allowing for a direct amide formation from free carboxylic acids and amines as the reaction partners.10-1112 Best results were obtained by using phenylboronic acids bearing electron withdrawing substituents in the meta- and/or para-positions such as 3,4,5-trifluorophenylboronic acid or 3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)boronic acid as the catalysts. 

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