Cooperative Cu/Pd-catalyzed borocarbonylation of ethylene.
Yang YuanJian-Xing XuXiao-Feng WuPublished in: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2022)
We report here a cooperative Cu/Pd-catalyzed multi-component borocarbonylation of ethylene with aryl iodides. A variety of synthetically useful β-boryl ketones were assembled from the most basic C1 (CO) and C2 (ethylene) building blocks in good yields.