Citation:
![gem-Diborylalkanes: recent advances in their preparation, transformation and application gem-Diborylalkanes: recent advances in their preparation, transformation and application](https://scholars.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/styles/book_cover/public/masarwagroup/files/slide1_2.jpg?m=1554880483&itok=QD3LDhTP)
Abstract:
Recently, gem-diborylalkanes have attracted much attention as versatile building blocks and fundamental intermediates in organic synthesis, because they enable multiple C–C bond construction and further transformation at C–B bonds. Importantly, gem-diborylalkanes can be utilised as bisnucleophilic partners in a variety of chemo-selective C–C bond-forming reactions. This review describes recent developments in synthesising gem-diborylalkanes in complex molecules along with their chemical transformation. In the first part of the review the different synthetic approaches used to synthesise gem-diborylalkanes are described. In the second part, an overview of the chemoselective transformation of gem-diborylalkanes into various functionalized materials is discussed along with one-carbon homologation of diborylmethane via a selective uni- and bidirectional method.
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(Invited Review)