Boron-Substituted Heteroaromatic Compounds

Abstract

The enormous developments in the chemistry of organoboranes and related compounds during the last two decades have contributed greatly to the recent progress of synthetic organic chemistry. The chemistry of boron-containing heterocycles is diverse. A variety of heteroaromatic compounds having a boron atom in the ring, borazaromatics for example, has been investigated, mostly due to their interesting physical and chemical properties. A number of derivatives of boron have been synthesized and evaluated for the potential use in cancer therapy. In some cases, the reaction of heterocycles with various boron reagents involves their derivatives as crucial reaction intermediates. This chapter deals with the chemistry of heteroaromatic compounds directly substituted on a ring carbon with a boron atom.