2024

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  Diverse Synthesis of (Thio)ethers and (Thio)esters Using Halodiborylmethane as a Transformable C1 Building Block

  Chiwon Hwang+, Yunhui Jang+, Yongsuk Jung, Jaeyoon Seo, Kwangmin Shin, and Seung Hwan Cho* (+These authors contributed equally to this work) 
  

  Org. Lett. 2024, 26​, 7010-7014.

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  Axially Chiral α-Boryl-Homoallenyl Boronic Esters as Versatile Toolbox for Accessing Centrally and Axially Chiral Molecules

  Yonghoon Jin, Junseok Lee, Woohyun Jo, Jeongwoo Yu, and Seung Hwan Cho* 

  Nat. Commun. 2024, 15, 9239.

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2023

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  Anion-Mediated, Stereospecific Synthesis of Secondary and Tertiary Cyclopropylboronates from Chiral Epoxides and gem-Diborylalkanes

  Gwanggyun Kim+, Minjae Kim,+ Changsu Ryu, Juhyeok Choi, Seung Hwan Cho* (+These authors contributed equally to this work) 

  Org. Lett. 2023, 25, 4130-4134. 

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  Chemo-, Regio-, and Stereoselective Access to (E)-Boryl-Substituted Allyl Fluorides via Electrophilic Fluorodesilylation

  Yongsuk Jung, Seung Hwan Cho* 

  Synlett 2023, 34, 2165-2168. 

  [Special issue on “Modern Organoboron Chemistry: 60 Years of the Matteson Reaction”]​

  Highlighted in Organic Chemistry Portal

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2022

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  Stereoselective Access to Tetra- and Tri-substituted Fluoro- and Chloro-borylalkenes via Boron-Wittig Reaction

  Seungcheol Han, Yeosan Lee, Yujin Jung, Seung Hwan Cho*  

  Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202210532. 

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  Diborylmethyl Group as a Transformable Building Block for the Diversification of Nitrogen-Containing Molecules

  Chiwon Hwang+, Yeosan Lee+, Minjae Kim, Younggyu Seo, Seung Hwan Cho* (+These authors contributed equally to this work) 

  Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202209079.
  [Selected as “Very Important Paper (VIP)”] 

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  Defluorinative C–C Bond-Forming Reaction of Trifluoromethyl Alkenes with (gem-Diborylalkyl)lithiums

  Haeun Kim+, Yujin Jung+, Seung Hwan Cho* (+These authors contributed equally to this work) 

  Org. Lett. 2022, 24, 2705-2710.  

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2021

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  Kinetic Resolution of α-Silyl-Substituted Allylboronate Esters via Chemo- and Stereoselective Allylboration of Aldehydes

  Jinyoung Park, Yongsuk Jung, Jeongho Kim, Eunsung Lee, Sarah Yunmi Lee, Seung Hwan Cho*
  Adv. Synth. Cat. 2021, 363, 2371-2376.
  [Special issue on "Boron in Catalysis and Organic Synthesis"]
  [Selected as "Very Important Publication (VIP)"]
  [Selected as "Front Cover"] 

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2020

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  ZnMe2-Mediated, Direct Alkylation of Electron Deficient N-Heteroarenes with 1,1-Diborylalkanes: Scope and Mechanism

  Woohyun Jo, Seungyeol Baek, Chiwon Hwang, Joon Heo, Mu-Hyun Baik,* Seung Hwan Cho* 

  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 13235-13245. 

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2019

2018

2017

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  Chemo- and Stereoselective Crotylation of Aldehydes and Cyclic Aldimines with Allylic-gem-diboronate Ester

  Jinyoung Park, Seoyoung Choi, Yeosan Lee, Seung Hwan Cho* 

  Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 4054-4057. 

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  Base-promoted, Deborylative Secondary Alkylation of N-Heteromatic N-Oxides with Internal gem-Bis[(pinacolato)boryl)]alkanes: A Facile Derivatization of 2,2′-Bipyridyl Analogues

  Chiwon Hwang, Woohyun Jo, Seung Hwan Cho* 

  Chem. Commun. 2017, 53, 7573-7576. 

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  Chemoselective Coupling of 1,1-Bis[(pinacolato)boryl]alkanes for the Transition-Metal-Free Borylation of Aryl and Vinyl Halides: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Investigation

  Yeosan Lee,+ Seung-yeol Baek,+ Jinyoung Park, Seoung-Tae Kim, Samat Tussupbayev, Jeongho Kim, Mu-Hyun Baik,* Seung Hwan Cho* (+These authors contributed equally to this work) 

  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 976-984. 

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2016

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  Transition-Metal-Free Regioselective Alkylation of Pyridine N-Oxides Using 1,1-Diborylalkanes as Alkylating Reagents

  Woohyun Jo+, Junghoon Kim+, Seoyoung Choi, Seung Hwan Cho* (+ These authors contribute equally to this work) 

  Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 9690-9694.
  Highlighted in Synfacts 2016, 12, 1016. 

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