(Phys.org)—In natural product and pharmaceutical chemistry,one goal is to find a modular reaction to attach together complex products, similar to how amino acids combine to form a peptide. Ideally, and this modular reaction could couple key building blocks used for many of these processes. N-methylimidodiacetic acid boronic esters,or MIDA boronates, have become the platform of choice for many automated platform small-molecule coupling reactions.
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