Copper-catalyzed stereoselective conjugate addition of alkylboranes to alkynoates

• Takamichi Wakamatsu,
• Kazunori Nagao,
• Hirohisa Ohmiya and
• Masaya Sawamura

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2444–2450, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.265

• . Keywords: alkylborane; alkynoate; conjugate addition; copper; multisubstituted alkene; Introduction Copper-mediated conjugate additions of organometallic reagents to alkynoates are powerful tools for the synthesis of multisubstituted alkenes [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. Because of their broad availability