Treatment of 1,1-[bis(pinacolato)boryl]alkenes with excess of 1-bromo-1-lithioethene was found to give 2,3-bis[(pinacola-to)boryl]-1,3-dienes in moderate to good yields. Synthetic applications of 2,3-[bis(pinacolato)boryl]-1,3-butadiene were also demonstrated. Alkenylboron compounds are readily accessible and extremely useful reagents in organic synthesis. 1 In contrast, bis(alkenylboron) compounds have attracted less attention probably because their facile syntheses are quite limited , 2 though bis(alkenylboron) compounds would be employed for an efficient synthesis of polysubstituted ole-fins through double carbon-carbon bond formation with retention of configuration by a simple experimental operation. Very recently, we found that treatment of bis(pina-colato)diboron 1 or (dimethylphenylsilyl)(pinacolato)-boron 3 with 1-halo-1-alkenyllithium gave the corresponding 1,1-bisborylalkenes 2 or 1-silyl-1-borylalkenes 4, respectively. 3 In particular, 2 is a parent example of bis(alkenylboron) compounds (eq.). Equation During the course of the synthetic studies, we eventually found that 2,3-bisboryl-1,3-dienes 5a were produced when excess of 1-bromo-1-lithioethene was treated with 1. Formation of 5a was ascribed to the reaction of 1,1-bis-borylethene 2a with CH 2 =CBrLi followed by 1,2-migration of a carbon (Scheme 1). 1 We report herein that the synthesis of 2,3-bisboryl-1,3-dienes is general, 4 and bis-borylated 1,3-dienes 5 serve as useful precursors of complex 1,3-dienes. 5 In addition, introduction of two boryl groups into a 1,3-diene unit enhances the synthetic utility of the addition products. Scheme 1 B = B(OCMe 2) 2 Treatment of 1-bromo-1-lithioethene (1 mol), generated from vinyl bromide and lithium 2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperi-dide (LiTMP) in THF-Et 2 O (2:1) at-110 °C, with 1,1-bis[(pinacolato)boryl]ethene 2a (1 mol) at-110 °C gave 2,3-bisboryl-1,3-butadiene 5a in 7% yield (Scheme 2). In view that diboron 1 reacts with an equimolar amount of 1-bromo-1-lithioethene to give 2a in 91% yield, 3 the low yield indicates that the reaction of the carbenoid with 2a is slower than with 1 and apparently competes with the decomposition of the lithium carbenoid. Then, we increased the amount of the carbenoid reagent, and observed that 72% yield was achieved when 5 molar equivalents of vinyl bromide and LiTMP were employed as shown in Scheme 2. 6,7 Noteworthy is that 5a can be purified by column chromatography on silica gel since 2-boryl-1,3-diene is reported to be highly susceptible to dimerization. 8 Car-benoid generation carried out in the presence of 2a gave 5a in lower yield (59%), while reaction of 2-substituted 1-bromo-1-lithioethene with 2a did not proceed at all. Scheme 2 Synthesis of 2,3-bisboryl-1,3-diene 5a The optimized conditions were applied to 2-monosubsti-tuted bisborylethenes 2b and 2c. The corresponding conjugated triene 5b as a E/Z mixture (73:27) and dienyne 5c as the only E-isomer were respectively isolated in 74% and 38% yields. 9 The stereochemical outcome indicates that 1-bromo-1-lithioethene pref...