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Jingfeng Huo¹, Yue Fu², Melody J Tang¹

¹Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.

|June 23, 2025

Summary

This study introduces a novel nickel-catalyzed method for vicinal diborylation of arenes, enabling the regioselective introduction of two distinct boryl groups. This advance provides a modular route to diverse difunctionalized aromatic compounds for drug discovery.

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Area of Science:

Organic Chemistry
Catalysis
Medicinal Chemistry

Background:

Vicinal difunctionalized arenes are crucial structural motifs in small-molecule drugs.
Current methods for synthesizing these compounds often lack modularity, regioselectivity, or generality.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a versatile and efficient method for the regioselective vicinal diborylation of arenes.
To enable the modular synthesis of diverse vicinal difunctionalized arenes for analogue library generation.

Main Methods:

A nickel-catalyzed reaction was employed to directly install two differentiated boryl groups onto aryl triflates or chlorides.
The reaction conditions were mild, scalable, and demonstrated broad substrate scope and functional group tolerance.

Main Results:

The method achieved regioselective and site-selective vicinal diborylation, yielding arenes with two distinct boryl substituents.
Mechanistic studies revealed an unusual pathway involving dearomatized gem-diboryl species and boron migration.

Conclusions:

This diborylation method offers a modular, regioselective, and divergent approach to vicinal difunctionalized arenes.
The findings have implications for developing new boron-mediated functionalization reactions and drug analogue synthesis.