Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol.131, No.36, 12915-12915, 2009
Iron-Catalyzed 1,4-Hydroboration of 1,3-Dienes
A chemo-, regio-, and stereoselective iron-catalyzed 1,4-hydroboration of dienes that affords gamma-disubstituted allylboranes has been developed. 1,4-Hydroboration of 2-substituted dienes forms allylborane products with (E)-trisubstituted double bonds exclusively.