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The author's work on (α-haloalkyl)boronic esters as reagents for asymmetric synthesis is reviewed. Diastereomeric ratios exceeding 1000 can be achieved with this chemistry, and ratios around 100 are commonplace. The method allows sequential installation of a series of stereocenters and tolerates a wide variety of suitably protected functional substituents. (α-Amidoalkyl)boronic acids include biochemically significant serine protease inhibitors, one of which is the clinically successful proteasome inhibitor bortezomib, used for treatment of multiple myeloma and mantle cell lymphoma.

Molybdenum and tungsten diethyldithiocarbamate complexes containing the M2S2(p-S)2 core react with Co2(CO)8 to form, in high yield, the novel "thiocubane" clusters M2Co2^3-S)4(S2CNEt2)2(CO)2-(CH3CN)2 (M = Mo, W). X-ray crystallography shows these clusters to contain a fully metal-metal bonded tetrahedral core as would be predicted from the 60electron count.

[reaction: see text] Asymmetric diol boronic esters with potassium bifluoride form the corresponding alkyltrifluoroborate and free diol under mild conditions. Defluoridation with tetrachlorosilane produces an alkyldifluoroborane intermediate. This conversion of relatively unreactive boronic esters to derivatives that are strong Lewis acids opens new synthetic opportunities, as illustrated by the preparation of (R)-2-phenylpyrrolidine in 98% ee from a pinanediol or 1,2-dicyclohexyl-1,2-ethanediol boronic ester via potassium (2-phenyl-4-azidobutyl)trifluoroborate.

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