Pyrimidin‐6‐yl trifluoroborate salts as versatile templates for heterocycle synthesis

We report a novel and general method to access a highly under‐studied privileged scaffold – pyrimidines bearing a trifluoroborate at C4, and highlight the broad utility of these intermediates in a rich array of downstream functionalization reactions. This chemistry is underpinned by the unique features of the trifluoroborate group; its robustness provides an opportunity to carry out chemoselective reactions at other positions on the pyrimidine while providing a pathway for elaboration at the C‐B bond when suitably activated.