@article {1429180, title = {gem-Diborylalkanes: recent advances in their preparation, transformation and application}, journal = {Org. Biomol. Chem.}, volume = {16}, year = {2018}, pages = {1050-1064}, abstract = {

Recently, gem-diborylalkanes have attracted much attention as versatile building blocks and fundamental intermediates in organic synthesis, because they enable multiple C{\textendash}C bond construction and further transformation at C{\textendash}B bonds. Importantly, gem-diborylalkanes can be utilised as bisnucleophilic partners in a variety of chemo-selective C{\textendash}C bond-forming reactions. This review describes recent developments in synthesising gem-diborylalkanes in complex molecules along with their chemical transformation. In the first part of the review the different synthetic approaches used to synthesise gem-diborylalkanes are described. In the second part, an overview of the chemoselective transformation of gem-diborylalkanes into various functionalized materials is discussed along with one-carbon homologation of diborylmethane via a selective uni- and bidirectional method.

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}, url = {https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2018/OB/C7OB02978K$\#$!divAbstract}, author = {Rajender Nallagonda and Kishor Padala and Ahmad Masarwa*} }