Pinacol esters with arylboronic acids

The ready availability of arylboronates by an aromatic C-H borylation provides a synthetic link to the well-established palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions, rhodium-catalyzed 1,4-addition to a,p-unsaturated carbonyl compounds, and other bond forming reactions using arylboronic esters (Scheme 2.12). Borylation of 1,3-dichlorobenzene with pinacolborane is followed directly by a cross-coupling reaction with methyl p-bromobenzoate for the synthesis of a biaryl product in 91% yield [60]. Pinacol esters of arylboronic acids react much slower than the free acids [62], but both derivatives achieve high isolated yields and comparable enantioselectivities (91% ee) in asymmetric 1,4-addition to N-benzyl crotonamides [63]. Borylation of arenes followed by oxidation of the C-B bond is synthetically equivalent to an aromatic C-H oxidation to phenols [64]. Oxidation of the resulting arylboronates with Oxone in a 1 1 acetone-water solution is completed within 10 min at room temperature. 

The Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of the pinacol ester of diboronic acid with aryl halides and triflates gives a direct procedure for various functionalized arylboronic esters (Table 6), which are useful for highly efficient and selective carbon-carbon bond formation by Pd catalysts (Sect. III.2.2). The combination of PdCl2(dppf) with KOAc (and dppf) is effective in the carbon-boron bond formation. KOAc is essential not only to accelerate the reaction but also to prevent the formation of biaryl by-products. 

The Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of the pinacol ester of diboronic acid with aryl halides and triflates gives a direct procedure for various functionalized arylboronic esters (Table which are useful for highly efficient and selective carbon-carbon bond... 

Stepwise double coupling of two different arylboronic acids with a dihaloarene afforded one-pot, two-step method for synthesizing unsymmetrical teraryls, quateraryls, and other higher order polyaryls.882 The first total synthesis of dragmacidin D involved a sequential double coupling of two different pinacol 3-indoleboronic esters (ArBpin Equation (207)).882... 

Boronic acids (5a) were among the first examples of low-molecular-weight, reversible inhibitors of serine proteinases [151, 152]. Significant inhibition was initially demonstrated against a-chymotrypsin. Unlike the carbonyl-derived reversible inhibitors, which require a polypeptide or peptide-like chain, activity was found with simple alkylboronic acids (e.g. the value for PhCH2CH2B(OH)2 with a-chymotrypsin was = 40 //M) [153], Weak inhibition of elastase (PPE) was first reported for a series of arylboronic acids, for example, (10-1) [123]. Some of the boron-based inhibitors Figure 2.5) were tested as either the difluoroboranes (5b) or as the pinacol boronate esters (5c). These modifications were employed because they were more readily synthesized and/or purified than the boronic acids. For both of these derivatives inhibition was shown to be due to in situ hydrolysis to the parent boronic acid (5a) [154, 155]. 

One-pot Synthesis of Arylboronic Acids and Aryltrifluorobo-rates. Hartwig also reported the synthesis of arylboronic acids and aryltrifluoroborates in a one-pot sequence by Ir-catalyzed borylation of arenes followed by the oxidative cleavage of the boronate ester with NaI04 and the displacement of pinacol by KHF2, respectively (eq 4). These two-step sequences give products that are more reactive and selective in the subsequent chemistry, such as Suzuki coupling, than the initially formed pinacol-boronates. 

Thus formed, organometallics are trapped with tiialkyl borates to produce whether the desired arylboronic [149-151,153] or diarylboronic esters [152], depending on the reaction conditions discussed above. The diarylboronic acids have also been successfully used in the Pd(PPh3)4-catalysed SM reactions with aryl triflates, under the standard conditions [152]. Beside trialkyl borates, A,A-dimethylaminoboron bromide has been trapped with organolithiums to give an unstable bis-aminoboronate 349, which, upon esterification with pinacol, gave the 1,4-phenylene-bis-pinacolato boronate (266) in 21% overall yield [154], Scheme 50. 

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