University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations 2012 Palladium-Catalyzed Borylation And Cross-Coupling Of Aryl And Heteroaryl Halides Utilizing Dibora Derivatives Sarah Little Jane Trice University of Pennsylvania,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations Part of the Organic Chemistry Commons Recommended Citation Trice, Sarah Little Jane, "Palladium-Catalyzed Borylation And Cross-Coupling Of Aryl And Heteroaryl Halides Utilizing Dibora Derivatives" (2012). Publicly Accessible Penn Dissertations. 712. https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/712 This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/edissertations/712 For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Palladium-Catalyzed Borylation And Cross-Coupling Of Aryl And Heteroaryl Halides Utilizing Dibora Derivatives Abstract ABSTRACT PALLADIUM-CATALYZED BORYLATION AND CROSS-COUPLING OF ARYL AND HETEROARYL HALIDES UTILIZING DIBORA DERIVATIVES Sarah Little Jane Trice Professor Gary A. Molander Although much current research focuses on developing new boron reagents and identifying robust catalytic systems for the cross-coupling of these reagents, the fundamental preparations of the nucleophilic partners (i.e., boronic acids and derivatives) has been studied to a lesser extent. Most current methods to access boronic acids are indirect and require harsh conditions or expensive reagents. Therefore, we sought to provide a simple, efficient, and direct synthesis of arylboronic acids. Utilizing aryl halides and an underutilized reagent, tetrahydroxydiboron B2(OH)4, we developed a palladium-catalyzed method that now provides access to boronic acids in high yield. The method eliminates the necessity to employ the extremely wasteful and most commonly used source of boron, bis(pinacolato)diboron.