Chemistry Letters, Vol.44, No.10, 1324-1326, 2015
Facile Synthesis of Diverse Multisubstituted ortho-Silylaryl Triflates via C-H Borylation
Diverse multisubstituted ortho-silylaryl triflates were efficiently synthesized from simple ortho-silylaryl triflates via iridium-catalyzed regioselective C-H borylation and subsequent deborylative functionalizations. An azidoaryne precursor synthesized by this method served as a useful bis-reactive platform molecule, thus demonstrating the utility of the method for preparing diverse aromatic compounds.