Chaves Pouso, AndreaÁlvarez-Constantino, Andrés M.Fañanás-Mastral, Martín2022-09-212022-09-212022Angew. Chem.Int. Ed.2022,61,e202117696http://hdl.handle.net/10347/29234A highly chemo-, regio-, enantio- and diastereoselective coupling of terminal alkynes, bis(pinacolato)diboron and allylic gem-dichlorides is reported. The method uses a chiral NHC−Cu catalyst which generates, in a single step, synthetically versatile chiral skipped dienes bearing a Z-alkenyl chloride, a trisubstituted E-alkenyl boronate and a bis-allylic stereocenter. Allylic gem-dichlorides are shown to be efficient substrates for catalytic asymmetric allylboration of alkynes. The method employs a chiral NHC−Cu catalyst capable of generating in a single step chiral skipped dienes bearing a Z-alkenyl chloride, a trisubstituted E-alkenyl boronate and a bis-allylic stereocenter with excellent levels of chemo-, regio- enantio- and diastereoselectivity. This high degree of functionalization makes these products versatile building blocks as illustrated with the synthesis of several optically active compounds. DFT calculations support the key presence of a metal cation bridge ligand–substrate interaction and account for the stereoselectivity outcomeeng© 2022 The Authors. Angewandte Chemie International Edition published by Wiley-VCH GmbH This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are madeAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacionalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Asymmetric catalysisCarboborationCoppergem-DichloridesSkipped Dienesjournal article10.1002/anie.2021176960570-0833open access