Phosphine–copper (I) complexes efficiently catalyzed the mono-boration of electron- deficient alkynes in the presence of MeOH and also catalyzed conjugate reductions of alkenylboronates bearing an electron-withdrawing group. The mono-addition of bis (pinacolato) diboron to alkynes catalyzed by a copper–Xantphos complex produced vinylboronates with high regio and stereoselectivity and asymmetric reduction of the ...
[Kirai, Naohiro; Iguchi, Shoichiro; Ito, Tatsuyoshi; Takaya, Jun; Iwasawa, Nobuharu Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2013 , vol. 86, # 7 p. 784 - 799]