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The final frontier

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Cross-coupling between a racemic secondary alkyl halide and an alkyl borane to produce an enantioenriched alkyl–alkyl product is one of the final substrate combinations to succumb to the synthetically powerful Suzuki–Miyaura methodology.

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Figure 1: γ- and δ-functionalization of carbonyl compounds.

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  1. Ben Glasspoole and Cathleen Crudden are in the Department of Chemistry at Queen's University, Chernoff Hall, 90 Bader Lane, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada,

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