Protodeboronation of tertiary boronic esters: asymmetric synthesis of tertiary alkyl stereogenic centers. 2010

Stefan Nave, and Ravindra P Sonawane, and Tim G Elford, and Varinder K Aggarwal
School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, Cantock's Close, Bristol BS8 1TS, UK.

While tertiary boranes undergo efficient protodeboronation with carboxylic acids, tertiary boronic esters do not. Instead, we have discovered that CsF with 1.1 equiv of H2O (on tertiary diarylalkyl boronic esters) or TBAF·3H2O (on tertiary aryldialkyl boronic esters) effect highly efficient protodeboronation of tertiary boronic esters with essentially complete retention of configuration. Furthermore, substituting D2O for H2O provides ready access to deuterium-labeled enantioenriched tertiary alkanes. The methodology has been applied to a short synthesis of the sesquiterpene, (S)-turmerone.

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