title: Catalytic enantioselective synthesis of secondary alkylboronate building blocks with and without metals.
abstract: With or without you: Chiral secondary alkylboronates can now be accessed by highly enantioselective catalytic methods including conjugate addition under metal-free conditions with an NHC catalyst, and also iridium-catalyzed hydrogenation. These methods reinforce the potential of secondary alkylboronates as ideal and universal chiral building blocks for bond formation to sp(3)  carbon atoms.
authors: Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, South Kensington, London, UK. j.bull@imperial.ac.uk
authors: James A
authors: JA
authors: Bull