“…Alkynyl boronates can be prepared from monovalent alcohols [10,11], but due to their increased hydrolytic stability the incorporation of bifunctional chelating alcohols, in particular 1,2-dihydroxy compounds, is highly preferred. Thus, the bivalent alcohols introduce a bridging backbone leading to improved stability, and the scope of 1,2-diols employed for alkynyl boronate esters includes pinacol ( 1 ) [12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19], catechol, ( 2 ) [20,21,22], and ethylene glycol ( 3 ) [23,24], Scheme 1. These compounds 1 – 3 may also be considered as boron substituted heterocycles and can be viewed as derivatives of the parent 1,3,2-dioxaborolane.…”