"The hydration of alkenes via hydroboration-oxidation … provides a valuable tool for the synthesis of a wide variety o…"

"An important feature of the hydroboration reaction is the regioselectivity observed with unsymmetrical alkenes. Gener…"

"The rates of hydroboration of alkenes with dialkylboranes vary over a wide range."

"The facile reactions of olefins and dienes with various hydroborating agents makes a variety of organoboranes readily…"

"MnO2 is a highly chemoselective oxidant—allylic, benzylic, and propargylic alcohols are oxidized faster than saturate…"

"The Jones reagent is an excellent reagent for the oxidation of secondary alcohols that do not contain acid-sensitive …"

"The Swern oxidation proceeds rapidly at low temperatures and thus can be employed for the preparation of a-keto aldeh…"

"Umpolung in a synthesis usually requires extra steps. Thus, one should strive to take maximum advantage of the functi…"

"Domino-type reactions involve careful design of a multistep reaction in a one-pot sequence in which the first step cr…"

"The classical procedure for oxidizing primary alcohols to aldehydes and secondary alcohols to ketones involves treatm…"