Ethynyl MIDA boronate: a readily accessible and highly versatile building block for small molecule synthesis

Ethynyl N-methyliminodiacetic acid (MIDA) boronate is a very useful building block for small molecule synthesis. This compound can serve as both a bifunctional acetylene equivalent with the capacity for terminus-selective bis-functionalization and a versatile starting material for the preparation of a wide range of other MIDA boronate building blocks. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.