Aryl nitrile oxide cycloaddition reactions in the presence of pinacol boronic acid ester

• Sarah L. Harding,
• Sebastian M. Marcuccio and
• G. Paul Savage

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 606–612, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.67

• dipolarophiles to yield aryl isoxazolines with the boronate ester function intact and available for subsequent reaction. Keywords: dipolar cycloaddition; heterocycle; nitrile oxide; hypervalent iodine oxidation; pinacol boronic acid esters; Introduction Metal-mediated coupling reactions to form carbon–carbon