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Utilizing Terminal Alkenes in Asymmetric Synthesis: Development and Application of Efficient Diboration/Cross-Coupling Cascades

Thesis advisor: James P. Morken / The first highly enantioselective diboration of unfunctionalized terminal alkenes has been developed using a platinum-phosphonite complex. This transformation produces versatile 1,2-bis(boronate)esters that can manipulated chemoselectively to generate a pletheroa of enantioenriched structural motifs. When combined with an appropriate palladium catalyst, the diboration product undergoes an efficient alkyl boron cross-coupling with aryl and vinyl electrophiles producing a wide range of enantioenriched homobenzylic and homoallylic boronates. Alternatively, when the 1,2-bis(boronate)ester diboration product contains an adjacent Z-olefin (derived from diboration of cis-1,3-dienes), allylation to aldehydes can be achieved delivering the syndiastereomer of product exclusively with excellent chirality transfer. Notably, the products obtained from the two described reactions contain an additional boronate moiety, which can be further functionalized through known carbon-boron bond transformations. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2014. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Chemistry.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:BOSTON/oai:dlib.bc.edu:bc-ir_103555
Date January 2014
CreatorsMlynarski, Scott Nathan
PublisherBoston College
Source SetsBoston College
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText, thesis
Formatelectronic, application/pdf
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