One-Step Synthesis of Acylborons from Acyl Chlorides through Copper-Catalyzed Borylation with Polystyrene-Supported PPh3 Ligand

Org Lett. 2022 Aug 5;24(30):5596-5601. doi: 10.1021/acs.orglett.2c02305. Epub 2022 Jul 28.

Abstract

We developed a one-step synthesis of acylborons from both readily available acyl chlorides and bis(pinacolato)diboron through copper(I)-catalyzed borylation. Under the reaction conditions using tBuOLi, polystyrene-supported triphenylphosphine as a copper ligand was found to promote the borylation of acyl chlorides while suppressing alcoholysis. This method enables the facile synthesis of potassium acyltrifluoroborates.