Mechanistic study of the ligand controlled regioselectivity in iridium catalyzed C-H borylation of aromatic imines.

As a major challenge in C-H borylation, how to control the selectivity has attracted lots of attention, however, the related mechanistic information still needs to be uncovered. Herein, density functional theory (DFT) has been used to study the mechanism for the ligand controlled regioselectivity in the iridium-catalyzed C-H borylation of aromatic imines, which is inspired by experimental observations (R. Bisht, B.