Aryl Chloride-Directed Enantioselective C(sp2)-H Borylation Enabled by Iridium Catalysis

J Am Chem Soc. 2023 Nov 22;145(46):25214-25221. doi: 10.1021/jacs.3c08129. Epub 2023 Nov 7.

Abstract

We herein report the iridium-catalyzed enantioselective C-H borylation of aryl chlorides. A variety of prochiral biaryl compounds could be well-tolerated, affording a vast array of axially chiral biaryls with high enantioselectivities. The current method exhibits a high turnover number (TON) of 7000, which represents the highest in functional-group-directed asymmetric C-H activation. The high TON was attributed to a weak catalyst-substrate interaction that was caused by mismatched chirality between catalyst and substrate. We also demonstrated the synthetic application of the current method by C-B, ortho-C-H, and C-Cl bond functionalization, including programmed Suzuki-Miyaura coupling for the synthesis of axially chiral polyarenes.