Geminal and vicinal borosilanes are useful building blocks in synthetic chemistry. But in contrast to the well-established transition-metal catalyzed methods, radical approaches are rarely explored. Here, the authors report the synthesis of geminal borosilanes from α-selective hydrosilylation of alkenyl boronates via photoinduced hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) catalysis
- Degong Kong
- Muliang Zhang
- Jie Wu
