Catalytic construction of stereogenic boron center on BODIPY via enantioselective Suzuki–Miyaura coupling

Abstract Catalytic and enantioselective construction of the boron-stereogenic center is challenging due to the instability of the tetracoordinate boron center. We herein report the enantioselective intermolecular Suzuki–Miyaura coupling of dichloro BODIPY through desymmetrization. The mechanistic study reveals that kinetic resolution plays an important role in the improvement of enantioselectivity.