JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH-S, sa.9, ss.530-531, 1998 (SCI-Expanded)
A comparison between the alpha- and beta-facial selectivity observed in the hydroboration of some androst-5-enes and beta-norandrost-5-enes does not parallel the difference between the calculated force field energies for alpha- and beta-cyclobutane models suggesting that the facial selectivity is not determined by the four-centre transition state but by the relative ease of formation of the initial pi-complex between the alkene and the borane.