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Inside Back Cover: Metal‐Free Radical Borylation of Alkyl and Aryl Iodides (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 51/2018)
Author(s) -
Cheng Ying,
MückLichtenfeld Christian,
Studer Armido
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201813329
Subject(s) - borylation , alkyl , chemistry , aryl , polymer chemistry , medicinal chemistry , photochemistry , organic chemistry
Boronic esters are highly valuable compounds in organic synthesis. In their Communication on page 16832 ff., A. Studer and co‐workers report transition‐metal‐free radical borylation of alkyl and aryl iodides. DMF as a Lewis ‐ basic solvent is key to this transformation and reactions proceed via a B–B one‐electron σ‐bond. Initiation of the radical chain reaction is best achieved with blue light.