Chemoselective oxidation of aryl organoboron systems enabled by boronic acid-selective phase transfer
Abstract
We report the direct chemoselective Brown-type oxidation of aryl organoboron systems containing two oxidizable boron groups. Basic biphasic reaction conditions enable selective formation and phase transfer of a boronic acid trihydroxyboronate in the presence of boronic acid pinacol (BPin) esters, while avoiding speciation equilibria. Spectroscopic investigations validate a base-promoted phase-selective discrimination of organoboron species. This phenomenon is general across a broad range of organoboron compounds and can also be used to invert conventional protecting group strategies, enabling chemoselective oxidation of BMIDA species over normally more reactive BPin substrates. We also demonstrate the selective oxidation of diboronic acid systems with chemoselectivity predictable a priori. The utility of this method is exemplified through the development of a chemoselective oxidative nucleophile coupling.
Citation
Molloy , J J , Clohessy , T A , Irving , C , Anderson , N A , Lloyd-Jones , G C & Watson , A J B 2017 , ' Chemoselective oxidation of aryl organoboron systems enabled by boronic acid-selective phase transfer ' , Chemical Science , vol. 8 , no. 2 , pp. 1551-1559 . https://doi.org/10.1039/C6SC04014D
Publication
Chemical Science
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
2041-6520Type
Journal article
Rights
© 2017 the Author(s). Open Access Article. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
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The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013)/ERC grant agreement no. [340163]. This work was supported by the EPSRC. We thank the EPSRC and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for PhD studentships (JJM and TAC),Collections
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