Aldehydes from alkenyl silanes

The hydrosi(ly)lations of alkenes and alkynes are very important catalytic processes for the synthesis of alkyl- and alkenyl-silanes, respectively, which can be further transformed into aldehydes, ketones or alcohols by estabhshed stoichiometric organic transformations, or used as nucleophiles in cross-coupling reactions. Hydrosilylation is also used for the derivatisation of Si containing polymers. The drawbacks of the most widespread hydrosilylation catalysts [the Speier s system, H PtCl/PrOH, and Karstedt s complex [Pt2(divinyl-disiloxane)3] include the formation of side-products, in addition to the desired anh-Markovnikov Si-H addition product. In the hydrosilylation of alkynes, formation of di-silanes (by competing further reaction of the product alkenyl-silane) and of geometrical isomers (a-isomer from the Markovnikov addition and Z-p and -P from the anh-Markovnikov addition. Scheme 2.6) are also possible. 

Control in the selection of ring substituents is an important element of oxazole synthesis. This is a feature of a new route that employs 0-trimethylsilyl acyltrimethylsilane cyanohydrins (148), which are obtained from aldehydes or acyl silanes <92JOC333l>. These intermediates, which provide the C-5 substituent and four of the five ring atoms, are reacted sequentially with organolithium reagents (C-4 substituent) and acyl chlorides or anhydrides (C-2 substituent) to furnish, -bis(trimethylsilyl) enamines (149), which cyclize under thermal conditions or upon treatment with trimethylsilyl trilluoromethanesulfonate (Scheme 68). The range of oxazoles accessible by this method includes those with alkyl, alkenyl, phenyl, and functionalized substituents at C-2, alkyl, alkenyl, and phenyl substituents at C-4, and alkyl and phenyl substituents at C-5. The rare 4-(, -dialkylamino)oxazoles (150) may also be prepared. 

Another variation of the Pauson-Khand is the cyclization of w-alkenyl-aldehydes 249 in the presence of HSi(OEt)3 resulting in siloxycyclopentadienes (Scheme 40)187-189 The observed products, 250, arise from functionalization of the intermediate titanacycle with silane followed by reductive elimination of product. 

Some authors have described the generation of boronates and stannanes bound to a support starting from the corresponding aryl haHdes [372, 6]. Boranes, boronic esters, and stannanes can furthermore be readily obtained from vinyl halides or from alkenes or alkynes by means of hydroboration or hydrostannylation (see Section 4.2). Boronates and silanes or stannanes can act as carbanion equivalents. Thus, support-bound boronates can release aryl alkenyl groups upon transmetala-tion to Rh. The intermediately formed Rh species can act as nucleophiles, and react with aldehydes to give alcohols (618) or can perform Michael additions (621, 622) [437, 438, 439] (Scheme 129) (see also Sections 4.7.15 and 4.2). 

Studies on the stereochemical outcome of the reaction of 2-alkenyl organometallic reagents with aldehydes have increased recently, largely because stereoselectively produced homoallylic alcohols are synthetically equivalent, by cleavage at the carbon-carbon double bond, to the type of aldol adduct stereoisomers required for macrolide antibiotic total synthesis. A new stereoselective synthesis of (Z)-2-alkenyltins (46a) or the corresponding silanes (46b) from allyl or vinyl 9-BBN derivatives has appeared (Scheme 20). The... 

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