Synthesis and Applications of Chiral Organoboranes Generated from Sulfonium Ylides

Abstract
The reactions of aryl-stabilized sulfonium ylides with trialkyl/triarylboranes have been investigated. Clean monohomologation of the boranes with only a small amount of the higher homologation products (95% ee) was observed in all cases. The ylide-borane reaction was applied to short syntheses of the anti-inflammatory agents neobenodine and cetirizine, both of which contain a chiral diarylmethylalkoxy and diarylmethylamino moiety, respectively.

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