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Chem Commun (Camb). 2005 Apr 28;(16):2172-4. doi: 10.1039/b501778e. Epub 2005 Mar 09.

Selective Ir-catalysed borylation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: structures of naphthalene-2,6-bis(boronate), pyrene-2,7-bis(boronate) and perylene-2,5,8,11-tetra(boronate) esters.

Chemical communications (Cambridge, England)

David N Coventry, Andrei S Batsanov, Andres E Goeta, Judith A K Howard, Todd B Marder, Robin N Perutz

Affiliations

  1. Department of Chemistry, University of Durham, South Road, Durham, UK.

PMID: 15846437 DOI: 10.1039/b501778e

Abstract

The selectivity of the iridium boryl complex-catalysed reaction of pyrene and perylene with B2(pin)2 (pin = OCMe2CMe2O) has been employed in the synthesis of D(2h)-symmetry pyrene-2,7-(Bpin)2 and D(4h)-symmetry perylene-2,5,8,11-(Bpin)4 providing direct borylation of positions which are otherwise difficult to derivatise.

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