Nickel-catalysed addition of organoboronates to 1,3-dienes

Eiji Shirakawa; Go Takahashi; Teruhisa Tsuchimoto; Yusuke Kawakami

doi:10.1039/b207185a

Nickel-catalysed addition of organoboronates to 1,3-dienes

Chem Commun (Camb). 2002 Oct 7:(19):2210-1. doi: 10.1039/b207185a.

Authors

Eiji Shirakawa¹, Go Takahashi, Teruhisa Tsuchimoto, Yusuke Kawakami

Affiliation

¹ Graduate School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Asahidai, Tatsunokuchi, Ishikawa 923-1292, Japan. shira@jaist.ac.jp

PMID: 12397982
DOI: 10.1039/b207185a

Abstract

Aryl- and alkenylboronates were found to add to 1,3-dienes in the presence of a catalytic amount of bis(1,5-cyclooctadiene)nickel, where a proton source in combination with a solvent considerably controls the regioselectivity.