Aromatic C–H borylation with a diboron reagent
A diboron reagent replaces an aromatic hydrogen, giving the aryl boronate and one equivalent of the boron–hydrogen reagent.
mechanism writtenBalanced: every atom is accounted for
What it needs, and what it gives
- Reaction class
- C-H functionalisation
- An iridium catalyst with a bipyridine ligand, 60–100 °C; the site is chosen by sterics, not by electronics.
- balanced — the co-products are written out, not dropped
- Mechanism
- none written
How it is thought to happen
No mechanism is written for this class
The transformation is applied and tested, but no canonical pathway has been written for it yet. Rather than generate a plausible-looking set of arrows, the platform offers nothing here. What it does claim — which bonds change — is read from the transformation itself and does not depend on a mechanism.
Try it on your own structures
Enter your reactants in the Reaction Lab. If this transformation matches what you drew, it is applied and the outcome is shown next to the records that back it — with the count of documented reactions doing the same thing on substrates like yours, rather than a confidence score.