Abstract
The utility of organoboranes in the synthesis of a wide variety of functional groups is now well established.1 There have been, however, only a limited number of reports where an organoborane containing a β-functionalized carbon was utilized in organic synthesis. Part of the reason for this is the difficulty in preparing β-functional organoboranes and their tendency to undergo elimination under a variety of reaction conditions.2 Those β-functionalized organoboranes utilized synthetically, which we could find in the literature are the β-ethoxy3, 1, and β-carboethoxyvinyl-boranes4, 2, of Zweifel and coworkers and the trans-β-tert-butyldimethylsilyloxy organoborane, 3, of Corey and Ravindranathan,5 who proposed this system as a potential precursor to prostanoids.