Dramatic Rate Enhancement with Preservation of Stereospecificity in the First Metal-Catalyzed Additions of Allylboronates
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Abstract
This communication successfully challenges the perception that the additions of allylbonates to aldehydes cannot be catalyzed effectively by added Lewis acids. Using a novel class of isomerically pure, tetrasubstituted 2-alkoxycarbonyl allylboronates (1), we describe that some metals (for example, Sc(OTf)(3) and Cu(OTf)(2)) allow these reagents to add onto aldehydes to yield gamma-lactone products 2 in good yields at temperatures almost 100 degrees C lower than the corresponding uncatalyzed reactions. The large rate enhancement over the uncatalyzed reaction provides a highly improved practical approach to access aldol-like adducts with a stereogenic quaternary carbon center. The crucial role of the 2-alkoxycarbonyl group on allylboronates 1 was demonstrated with control experiments using a model allylboronate lacking such an ester group. Moreover, the stereospecificity observed in the uncatalyzed allylborations is preserved. These observations raise intriguing mechanistic issues such as the suggestion that type I allylmetal behavior is maintained in this unprecedented catalytic reaction manifold.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
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