An electrochemical chiral sensing platform based on a multi-substituted ferrocene–Cu+ complex is constructed for the discrimination of electroactive amino acid isomers.
A strain-release promoted cycloaddition opens-up access to carbonyl conjugated allylic diborons and borylated homoallylic alcohols, β-spiro lactones and γ-butyrolactones having adjacent quaternary, tertiary and secondary stereocenters.
An enantio- and diastereoselective allylboration of sterically hindered aldehydes utilizing multiple hydrogen bonding interactions between chiral phosphoramide catalyst has been established.
Two cascade processes based on asymmetric aldehyde allylboration by a chiral phosphoric acid catalyst have been established for creating chiral multisubstituted tetrahydropyrans.
A formal [4 + 1] cycloaddition reaction of ketiminoboranes with isonitriles is described. This sequential four-component reaction could successfully incorporate HB(C6F5)2, 2,5-dimethylhexa-2,4-diene, nitriles, and isonitriles, into new BN-cycles.