TY  - JOUR
A1  - Maier, Jan
A1  - Marder, Todd B.
T1  - Mechanistic and Kinetic Factors of ortho‐Benzyne Formation in Hexadehydro‐Diels‐Alder (HDDA) Reactions
JF  - Chemistry – A European Journal
N2  - With the rapid development of the hexadehydro‐Diels‐Alder reaction (HDDA) from its first discovery in 1997, the question of whether a concerted or stepwise mechanism better describes the thermally activated formation of ortho‐benzyne from a diyne and a diynophile has been debated. Mechanistic and kinetic investigations were able to show that this is not a black or white situation, as minor changes can tip the balance. For that reason, especially, linked yne‐diynes were studied to examine steric, electronic, and radical‐stabilizing effects of their terminal substituents on the reaction mechanism and kinetics. Furthermore, the influence of the nature of the linker on the HDDA reaction was explored. The more recently discovered photochemical HDDA reaction also gives ortho‐arynes, which display the same reactivity as the thermally generated ones, but their formation might not proceed by the same mechanism. This minireview summarizes the current state of mechanistic understanding of the HDDA reaction.
KW  - Alkyne
KW  - Benzyne
KW  - Cyclization
KW  - Hexadehydro-Diels-Alder
KW  - reaction mechanism
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-239006
VL  - 27
IS  - 30
SP  - 7978
EP  - 7991
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Liu, Xiaocui
A1  - Ming, Wenbo
A1  - Luo, Xiaoling
A1  - Friedrich, Alexandra
A1  - Maier, Jan
A1  - Radius, Udo
A1  - Santos, Webster L.
A1  - Marder, Todd B.
T1  - Regio‐ and Stereoselective Synthesis of 1,1‐Diborylalkenes via Brønsted Base‐Catalyzed Mixed Diboration of Alkynyl Esters and Amides with BpinBdan
JF  - European Journal of Organic Chemistry
N2  - The NaOtBu‐catalyzed mixed 1,1‐diboration of terminal alkynes using the unsymmetrical diboron reagent BpinBdan (pin = pinacolato; dan = 1,8‐diaminonaphthalene) proceeds in a regio‐ and stereoselective fashion affording moderate to high yields of 1,1‐diborylalkenes bearing orthogonal boron protecting groups. It is applicable to gram‐scale synthesis without loss of yield or selectivity. The mixed 1,1‐diborylalkene products can be utilized in Suzuki–Miyaura cross‐coupling reactions which take place selectivly at the C–B site. DFT calculations suggest the NaOtBu‐catalyzed mixed 1,1‐diboration of alkynes occurs through deprotonation of the terminal alkyne, stepwise addition of BpinBdan to the terminal carbon followed by protonation with tBuOH. Experimentally observed selective formation of (Z)‐diborylalkenes is supported by our theoretical studies.
KW  - boronate esters
KW  - borylation
KW  - cross‐coupling
KW  - synthesis design
KW  - structure elucidation
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-214728
VL  - 2020
IS  - 13
SP  - 1941
EP  - 1946
ER  -