“…However, this method is not effective for aromatic substrates such as benzoic acids and anilines. (Acyloxy)boron intermediates generated from carboxylic acids and boron reagents such as BR 3 (R¼C 8 H 17 , OMe) [19], ClB (OMe) 2 [19], HB(OR) 2 (R¼i-Pr, t-Am) [19], BH 3 • R 3 N (R¼Me, Bu) [20], BF 3 • Et 2 O [21], and catecholborane [22] were shown to react with amines to furnish amides in moderate to good yields, but only under uniformly stoichiometric reaction conditions. In these boron-mediated amidations, boron reagents transform into inactive boron species after the reaction of (acyloxy)boron derivatives and amines.…”