Copper-catalyzed decarboxylative hydroboration of phenylpropiolic acids under ligand-free or both ligand-and base-free conditions

An efficient copper-catalyzed decarboxylative hydroboration of phenylpropiolic acids with bis（pinacolato）diboron was developed, affording b-vinylboronates as the only products in high yields. Extra hydrogen sources such as methanol are not needed in this catalytic system. This reaction could be performed successfully under ligand- and base-free conditions. It demonstrated that phenylpropiolic acids can be employed as alkyne synthons in the hydroboration reaction and exhibited good reactivity and higher selectivity than terminal alkynes.

Pd-catalyzed ortho-olefination of aromatic acetyl esters

A Pd（Ⅱ）-catalyzed ortho-olefination of aromatic acetic esters is described which features with an excellent funcitional group tolerance, good yields, mild reaction conditions, good scalability as well as high chemo-and regio-selectivity.

Spiro(phosphoamidite) ligand(SIPHOS)/Cu(OTf)2-catalyzed highly regio-and stereo-selective hydroborations of internal alkynes with diborane in water

The highly regio-and stereoselective hydroborations of unactivated internal alkynes with diboron compound catalyzed by Cu（OTf）2 with spiro（phosphoamidite） as ligand in the presence of Cs2CO3 in water was developed.This protocol was applied efficiently in the aqueous synthesis of multi-substituted vinylboranes.