Aminomethylations via cross-coupling of potassium organotrifluoroborates with aryl bromides.

[reaction: see text] The Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction of N,N-dialkylaminomethyltrifluoroborates with aryl halides allows the construction of an aminomethyl aryl linkage through a disconnection based on dissonant reactivity patterns. A variety of these aminomethyltrifluoroborate substrates were prepared in good to excellent yields and then shown to cross-couple with equal facility to both electron-rich and electron-poor aryl halides as well as to a variety of heteroaromatic bromides.