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SUBMITTER: Tellis JC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4406487 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20140605 6195
The routine application of C(sp3)-hybridized nucleophiles in cross-coupling reactions remains an unsolved challenge in organic chemistry. The sluggish transmetalation rates observed for the preferred organoboron reagents in such transformations are a consequence of the two-electron mechanism underlying the standard catalytic approach. We describe a mechanistically distinct single-electron transfer-based strategy for the activation of organoboron reagents toward transmetalation that exhibits comp ...[more]