title: Chiral Brønsted acid-catalyzed allylboration of aldehydes.
abstract: The catalytic enantioselective allylation of aldehydes is a long-standing problem of considerable interest to the chemical community. We disclose a new high-yielding and highly enantioselective chiral Brønsted acid-catalyzed allylboration of aldehydes. The reaction is shown to be highly general, with a broad substrate scope that covers aryl, heteroaryl, alpha,beta-unsaturated, and aliphatic aldehydes. The reaction conditions are also shown to be effective for the catalytic enantioselective crotylation of aldehydes. We believe that the high reactivity of the allylboronate is due to protonation of the boronate oxygen by the chiral phosphoric acid catalyst.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of South Florida, 4202 East Fowler Avenue, Tampa, Florida 33620, USA.
authors.forename: Pankaj
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jain
authors.forename: Jon C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Antilla
mesh_terms: D000438:Alcohols / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D000447:Aldehydes / Q000737:chemistry*; D001897:Boronic Acids / Q000737:chemistry*; D002384:Catalysis; D015394:Molecular Structure; D063065:Organophosphonates / Q000737:chemistry*; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: D000438:Alcohols; D000447:Aldehydes; D001897:Boronic Acids; D063065:Organophosphonates