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Problem solved: an air-stable 2-pyridyl borane that can effectively couple to a wide range of aryl and heteroaryl halides and pseudohalides has evaded the synthesis community for decades. The discovery that Cu(DEA)(2) powerfully enables palladium-mediated cross-couplings with air-stable boronates 1 has finally provided a general solution to this problem. DEA=diethanolamine, DMF=N,N'-dimethylformamide, Tf=trifluoromethanesulfonyl.
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