Emerging radical rearrangement reactions: The 1,2-boron shift

As the cross-coupling needs of chemists continue to grow for accessing increasingly complex targets, radical-based transformations have become mainstay methodologies for the discovery of new reactivity under mild and waste-limiting conditions. En route to such methodological advancements, the observation of the 1,2-boron shift a novel radical rearrangement in its application has generated a new cross-coupling methodology to access products that were previously inaccessible or otherwise cumbersome to make. The origins of this radical rearrangement along with the synthetic applications to organic chemistry are highlighted.