Deoxygenative Geminal Silylboration of Amides Using Silylboronates: Synthesis and Use of α‐Boryl‐α‐Silylalkylamines
α-Silylalkylamines and α-borylalkylamines are versatile synthetic intermediates and attractive scaffolds found in pharmaceutical drugs and agrochemicals. Despite great progress on synthetic methods for preparation of α-silylalkylamines or α-borylalkylamines, there are no general strategies for preparation of α-boryl-α-silylalkylamines and the reactivity has not been explored. Here we report deoxygenative geminal silylboration of amides using silylboronates in the presence of alkoxide base catalyst, producing α-boryl-α-silylalkylamines. The silicon and boron groups in α-boryl-α-silylalkylamines are found to be utilized to chemoselective transformations, such as protonation and alkylation. This protocol serves various α-silylalkylamines and α-borylalkylamines from readily available amides.
Authors
- Kazunori Nagao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3141-5279)
- Hirohisa Ohmiya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1374-1137)
- Koh Watanabe
Institutions
- Kyoto University (JP)
- Kyoto Bunkyo University (JP)
- Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas (ES)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Angewandte Chemie International Edition
- Published
- 2024-08-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202411990
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Advanced Synthetic Organic Chemistry
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.75
Funders
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University