Benzoxaborole-Inspired p K a-Guided Search for a Borine Alternative Uncovers a Borylurea Scaffold with Unique Properties and Reactivity
The advent of benzoxaborole drugs brought attention to hemiboronic heterocycles as an attractive chemotype, where they can be implicated in a number of biological contexts. However, the success of benzoxaboroles, a neutral-pKa scaffold, has yet to be replicated with other classes of boranol (B–OH)-containing heterocy...