Volume 30, Issue 12 pp. 2798-2804
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A New Synthetic Method of (Z)-4-Aryl-but-2-en-1-ols via Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling Reaction of 4-Substituted 1,2-Oxaborol-2(5H)-ols with Benzyl Bromides

Tao Yu

Tao Yu

Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Institute of Fine Chemicals, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China

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Xinyan Wu

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Xinyan Wu

Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Institute of Fine Chemicals, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China

Xinyan Wu, Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Institute of Fine Chemicals, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China

Jun Yang, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032, China

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Jun Yang

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Jun Yang

Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032, China

Xinyan Wu, Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Institute of Fine Chemicals, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China

Jun Yang, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032, China

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First published: 17 December 2012
Citations: 5

Abstract

Z and E configuration 4-aryl-but-2-en-1-ols were isolated from several terrestrial plants, and (Z)-4-aryl-but-2en-1-ols were found to have choleretic activity. Strategies have been reported to synthesize (E)-4-aryl-but-2-en-1ols with high selectivity. However, there is no method to obtain (Z)-4-aryl-but-2-en-1-ols with high selectivity now. We developed a Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction of 1,2-oxaborol-2(5H)-ols with benzyl bromides to synthesize (Z)-4-aryl-but-2-en-1-ols, the products were obtained in up to 94% isolated yield.

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