Consecutive reduction, radical-cyclization, and oxidative-dehydrogenation reaction of ortho-substituted diboryl compounds

Authors

Lirong Yu, Lanzhou University
Yanglizhi Li, Lanzhou University
Xi Wang, Lanzhou University
Xingyong Wang, University of WollongongFollow
Panpan Zhou, Lanzhou University
Shangda Jiang, Peking University
Xiaobo Pan, Nanjing University, Lanzhou University

RIS ID

116309

Publication Details

Yu, L., Li, Y., Wang, X., Wang, X., Zhou, P., Jiang, S. & Pan, X. (2017). Consecutive reduction, radical-cyclization, and oxidative-dehydrogenation reaction of ortho-substituted diboryl compounds. Chemical Communications, 53 (70), 9737-9740.

Abstract

An elegant synthetic route to a ladder-type di-borate compound 2a was reported based on the reduction, radical-cyclization, and oxidative-dehydrogenation reaction of 1. The existence of the biradical intermediate [1^●●]^2- was supported by both EPR measurements and DFT calculations.