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The regio- and diastereospecific allylboration with the achiral reagent and the regio-, diastereo- and enantioselective allylboration with the novel chiral reagent, as well as their reactions with pyrimidinic aldehyde yielding new alcohol, were analyzed computationally, revealing the origins of high selectivity in dynamic multicomponent reaction mixtures. The exocyclic isomers are unreactive due to the universally high barriers of allylboration reactions with their participation. Relative stabilities of all intermediates and transition states are regulated by the effectiveness of weak non-covalent interactions in the corresponding species. X-Ray crystallographic analysis of the racemate, consisting of (RR) and (SS) enantiomers, confirmed its constitution and relative configuration, whereas the absolute configuration of the chiral compound was assigned on the basis of the DFT calculation results. 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