Fig. 7: Proposed mechanism and computational studies.
From: Dinuclear gold-catalyzed divergent dechlorinative radical borylation of gem-dichloroalkanes
a Reaction mechanism for gold catalyzed divergent dechlorinative borylation. SET single-electron transfer, HAT hydrogen atom transfer. b DFT calculation results of HAT process at the PBE (D3BJ)/def2-SVP/def2-TZVP/PCM(DMF)//RI-wB97M-V/def2-TZVPP/SMD(DMF) level of theory.
