Palladium-catalyzed carbostannylation by means of reagents containing carbon–tin–halogen inter-element linkages

Copper-catalyzed arylstannylation of arynes in a sequence

Diverse ortho-stannylbiaryls and teraryls have been synthesized by copper-catalyzed arylstannylation of arynes, in which the single or dual insertion of arynes into arylstannanes is precisely controllable by simply changing the equivalence of the aryne precursors employed.

Palladium-catalyzed, stereoselective, cyclizative alkenylboration of carbon-carbon double bonds through activation of a boron-chlorine bond

Palladium-catalyzed alkenylboration of carbon-carbon double bonds has been achieved using the reaction of chloro(diisopropylamino)boryl ethers of homoallylic alcohols with alkenylzirconium reagents. The reaction may proceed through an initial oxidative addition of the B-Cl bond, intramolecular insertion of the C═C bond into the B-Pd bond, transmetalation from the alkenylzirconium reagent, and reductive elimination of the products. The cyclization proceeds with high diastereoselectivity for the formation of cis-3,5- or trans-3,4-disubstituted-1,2-oxaborolane products. Cross-coupling of the resultant products with aryl iodides proceeds with retention of configuration at the boron-bound secondary carbon atom.