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Visible-Light-Induced Organocatalytic Borylation of Aryl Chlorides
1Center of Basic Molecular Science, Department of Chemistry , Tsinghua University , Beijing 10084 , China.
Abstract:
The preparation of arylboronates from unactivated aryl chlorides in a transition-metal-free manner is rather challenging. There are only few examples to achieve this goal by using ultraviolet irradiation. Based on the mechanistic understanding of the diboron/methoxide/pyridine reaction system, we achieved photoactivation of the in situ generated super electron donor and developed a visible-light-induced organocatalytic method for efficient borylation of unactivated aryl chlorides.
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