Developing a Bench-Scale Green Diboration Reaction toward Industrial Application

Dedicated to Prof. Maria Elena Fernandez and Prof. Carles Bo, our scientific parents

Published as part of the Special Topic Modern Strategies for Borylation in Synthesis

Abstract

We report a new methodology for the organocatalytic diboration reaction using inexpensive, sustainable, nontoxic, commercially available halogen salts. This is an educative manuscript for the transformation of laboratory scale reactions into a sustainable approach of appeal to industry.

Key words

green chemistry - organocatalysis - boron chemistry - ate complexes

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