%0 Journal Article %A Roscales García, Silvia %A Rincón, Ángela %A Buxaderas, Eduardo %A García Csaky, Aurelio %T Trifluoroacetic anhydride—catalyzed conjugate addition of boronic acids to a,b-unsaturated ketones %D 2012 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/116001 %X The conjugate addition of boronic acids to α,β-unsaturated ketones catalyzed by acylating reagents has been explored. The results show that trifluoroacetic anhydride catalyzes the addition of vinylboronic acids under experimentally simple and metal-free conditions for a variety of substrates with good yields. %~