a Roy and Diana Vagelos Laboratories, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323, United States b Departamento de Quimica Fundamental, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife-PE 50670-901, Brazil
Abstract:
The synthesis of unsaturated organotrifluoroborates using the Wittig alkenation is described. These transformations to disubstituted alkenes were achieved by using formyl-substituted organotrifluoroborates and stabilized ylides using water as a solvent. The products were isolated in moderate to excellent yields and the reaction gave preferentially the E-isomer.