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Approaching a Holy Grail? A regioselective functionalization of alkanes occurs with commercially available rhenium catalysts and borane reagents under photochemical conditions [Eq. (1)]. Mechanistic studies indicate that the regioselectivity results from a direct thermal reaction of a photochemically generated 16-electron boryl complex with alkane.
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