The selective synthesis of 2,6-trans-tetrahydropyran derivatives employing the rhodium catalysed addition of organoboron reagents to dihydropyranone templates, derived from a zinc-catalysed hetero-Diels-Alder reaction, is reported. The addition of both arylboronic acids and potassium alkenyltrifluoroborates have been accomplished in high yields using commercially-available [Rh(cod)(OH)]2 cataly...

A highly efficient and cost-effective method for the preparation of α,β,β-trifluorostyrene (TFS) and its derivatives is described. The method required only 0.2 mol % of Pd(dba)(2) and 0.4 mol % of P(t)Bu(3) and occurred to full conversion within 2.0 h. With this method, a wide range of arylboronic acids were efficiently incorporated to generate α,β,β-trifluorostyrene derivatives.

We herein report an unprecedented reactivity of mononuclear gold catalysts acting as classical and at the same time active partners in a radical chain mechanism, whereby is only catalyst. The mechanism photo-induced photosensitizer-free “gold only”-catalyzed cross coupling was studied detail – experimentally theoretically based on reaction between arylboronic acids aryldiazonium salts. With sys...

The paper describes the synthesis of a novel nano-sized phosphine-free benzothiazole-based palladium(II) complexes from easily accessible starting materials and study their efficiency as catalysts for Suzuki Miyaura cross coupling reaction using water solvent under microwaves irradiations. Structural elucidation benzthiazole-based was achieved by analytical physical characterization tools. cata...

This research was done in order to investigate the anticancer activity of boronic acid arylidene heterocycles. Boronic acid, heterocycles, and aryl compounds have all independently exhibited various anti-microbial properties and have shown potential to be used in pharmaceuticals for the treatment of viruses and cancers. Using a one-step protocol developed by Dr. Murray, several different arylhe...

Tetraboronic acids 1 and 2 have four -B(OH)(2) groups oriented tetrahedrally by cores derived from tetraphenylmethane and tetraphenylsilane. Crystallization produces isostructural diamondoid networks held together by hydrogen bonding of the -B(OH)(2) groups, in accord with the tendency of simple arylboronic acids to form cyclic hydrogen-bonded dimers in the solid state. Five-fold interpenetrati...

The Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction of 1-aryltriazenes with arylboronic acids catalyzed by a recyclable polymer-supported Pd-NHC complex catalyst has been realized for the first time. The polymer-supported catalyst can be re-used several times still retaining high activity for this transformation. Various aryltriazenes were investigated as electrophilic substrates at room temperature to ...

We demonstrate that allenes, chiral 1,2-dienes, appended with basic functionality can serve as ligands for transition metals. We describe an allene-containing bisphosphine that, when coordinated to Rh(I), promotes the asymmetric addition of arylboronic acids to α-keto esters with high enantioselectivity. Solution and solid-state structural analysis reveals that one olefin of the allene can coor...