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SUBMITTER: Prokofjevs A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3405176 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20120716 29
Treatment of alkenes such as 3-hexene, 3-octene, and 1-cyclohexyl-1-butene with the N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC)-derived borane 2 and catalytic HNTf(2) (Tf = trifluoromethanesulfonyl (CF(3)SO(2))) effects hydroboration at room temperature. With 3-hexene, surprisingly facile migration of the boron atom from C(3) of the hexyl group to C(2) was observed over a time scale of minutes to hours. Oxidative workup gave a mixture of alcohols containing 2-hexanol as the major product. A similar preference ...[more]