The hydrogen-bonding activation for 66 organocatalysts has been quantified using a 31P
NMR binding experiment with triethylphosphine oxide (TEPO). Diverse structural classes …

The hydrogen-bond-accepting abilities for more than 100 organic molecules are quantified
using 19F and 31P NMR spectroscopy with pentafluorobenzoic acid (PFBA) and …

Boronic acid catalysis has emerged as a mild method for promoting a wide variety of
reactions. It has been proposed that the mode of catalysis involves Lewis acid or covalent …

Directed ortho-metallation is used to introduce a boron function into N, N-
diisopropylbenzamide, resulting in the formation of both borinate and boronate derivatives …

Boron-containing compounds have a wide range of structures and rich and multifaceted
reactivity patterns. As a result, these compounds are being increasingly used in …

Although boronic acids are recognized primarily for their utility as reagents in transition
metal-catalyzed transformations, other applications are emerging, including their use as …

Organic derivatives of boronic acid are widely used reagents useful in various synthetic
applications. A fundamental understanding and the exploration of new reaction pathways of …

The Suzuki-Miyaura reaction has become one of the more useful tools for synthetic organic
chemists. Until recently, there did not exist a direct way to make the most important …

Owing to the unusual reactivity of dialkylamine-borane complexes, a methodology was
developed to simply access boronic acids. The intrinsic instability of magnesium …

Get the water out! DFT calculations predict water elimination from a tetrahedral intermediate
to be the rate determining step in the title reaction. This transformation is calculated to be …