A mild, chemo- and site-selective catalytic protocol that allows for incorporating an alkylboron fragment into unactivated olefins is described. The use of internal olefins enables C–C bond-formation at remote sp3 C–H sites, constituting a complementary and conceptually different approach to existing borylation techniques that are currently available at sp3 centers.
Site-Selective Ni-Catalyzed Reductive Coupling of alpha-Haloboranes with Unactivated Olefins
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140 (40), 12765–12769, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b09425.
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