Alkynes, activation hydrosilylation

Complexes 59 and 60 catalyse the hydrosilylation of phenylacetylene (but not other terminal alkyl alkynes) with HSi(Me)jPh. Generally, the Rh analogue is more active than the relative Ir. Both catalysts gave mixtures of all regioisomers, with a preference for the p-Z-isomer, in contrast to what has been reported with other non-NHC cationic complexes of Rh, where the p-f isomers are predominating. Here also the exact nature of the catalytic species is unclear [48],... 

To give some new examples of the remarkable catal5dic activity of SMA, we report here some recent results obtained on the sUyl-carbocyclization of alkynes, promoted by arene-solvated Rh atoms, and on the hydrosilylation of functionalized alkenes, catalyzed by arene-solvated Pt atoms. 

Complexes (65) and (66) result from the reaction of IrCl3 with inah and PPh3 (inah = isonicotinic acid hydrazide).92 Reaction of Troger s base (tb) (67) with IrCl3 yields dark violet tb 2IrCl3 (6S).93 (68) was not catalytically active towards the hydrosilylation of alkynes. 

Employing a molar excess of the alkyne over the active hydrogen of only 12 percent the selectivity (determined by proton NMR after work-up) may be expressed as the ratio of Si-C=CH- to Si-CH2-CH2-CO-, which is about 100 1 [16]. The same reaction, carried out with silicone polymers with 10 or more pendant silicon-bonded hydrogen atoms, proceeds similarly cleanly without noticeable crosslinking by acrylic hydrosilylation. A slight excess of triple bond over Si-H groups is mandatory to suppress this side reaction as well as hydrosilylation of the olefinic group of the 2-silylalkene isomer product (see Table 2.). 

Based on the extraordinary selectivity in hydrosilylation reactions when an alkyne competes with other groups for a silicon-bonded active hydrogen, further derivatisation can be carried out. The hydrosilylation of 2-methyl-3-butynol, which works very well with polymeric siloxanes, gives hydroxyal-kenylsilicon compounds - a l-silylalkenyl/2-silylalkenyl mixture from cis-addition across the triple bond. Elimination of water from the tert. alcohol produced, catalyzed by traces of a strong acid, results in isoprenylic siloxanes in more than 90 % overall yield (Eq. 8). 

Ruthenium complexes do not have an extensive history as alkyne hydrosilylation catalysts. Oro noted that a ruthenium(n) hydride (Scheme 11, A) will perform stepwise alkyne insertion, and that the resulting vinylruthenium will undergo transmetallation upon treatment with triethylsilane to regenerate the ruthenium(n) hydride and produce the (E)-f3-vinylsilane in a stoichiometric reaction. However, when the same complex is used to catalyze the hydrosilylation reaction, exclusive formation of the (Z)-/3-vinylsilane is observed.55 In the catalytic case, the active ruthenium species is likely not the hydride A but the Ru-Si species B. This leads to a monohydride silylmetallation mechanism (see Scheme 1). More recently, small changes in catalyst structure have been shown to provide remarkable changes in stereoselectivity (Scheme ll).56... 

Hydrosilylation can be applied to alkenes, alkynes, and aldehydes or ketones. A wide range of metal compounds can be used as a catalyst. The most common and active ones for alkenes and alkynes are undoubtedly based on platinum. Hydrosilylation of C-0 double bonds gives silyl ethers, which are subsequently hydrolysed to their alcohols. The reaction is of interest in its enantioselective version in organic synthesis for making chiral alcohols, as the achiral hydrogenation of aldehydes or ketones does not justify the use of expensive silanes as a reagent. 

Computational and catalytic studies of the hydrosilylation of terminal alkynes have been very recently reported, with the use of [ Ir( r-Cl)(Cl)(Cp ) 2] catalyst to afford highly stereoselectively P-Z-vinylsilanes with high yields (>90%) [35]. B-isomers can be also found among the products, due to subsequent Z —> E isomerization under the conditions employed. The catalytic cycle is based on an lr(lll)-lr(V) oxidahve addition and direct reductive elimination of the P-Z-vinylsilane. Other iridium complexes have been found to be active in the hydrosilylation of phenylacetylene and 1-alkynes for example, when phenylacetylene is used as a substrate, dehydrogenative silylation products are also formed (see Scheme 14.5 and Table 14.3). 

Among the latter group, iridium complexes (though less common than rhodium) and perhaps also ruthenium play crucial roles in many of the above-mentioned transformations of silicon compounds, leading to the creahon of sihcon-carbon bonds. Examples include the hydrosilylation or dehydrogenahve silylation of alkenes and alkynes, the hydroformylahon of vinylsilanes, and the silyhbrmylation of alkynes as well as activation of the sp C—H of arenes (by disilanes) and alkenes (by vinylsilanes). 

Hydroboration of a variety of alkenes and terminal alkynes with catecholborane in the fluorous solvent perfluoromethylcyclohexane was performed using fluorous analogs of the Wilkinson catalyst.135 136 Recycling of a rhodium-based alkene hydrosilylation catalyst was also successful.137 Activated aromatics and naphthalene showed satisfactory reactivity in Friedel-Crafts acylation with acid anhydrides in the presence of Yb tris(perfluoroalkanesulfonyl)methide catalysts.138... 

Addition of hydrosilane to alkenes, dienes and alkynes is called hydrosilylation, or hydrosilation, and is a commercially important process for the production of many organosilicon compounds. As related reactions, silylformylation of alkynes is treated in Section 7.1.2, and the reduction of carbonyl compounds to alcohols by hydrosilylation is treated in Section 10.2. Compared with other hydrometallations discussed so far, hydrosilylation is sluggish and proceeds satisfactorily only in the presence of catalysts [214], Chloroplatinic acid is the most active catalyst and the hydrosilylation of alkenes catalysed by E PtCU is operated commercially [215]. Colloidal Pt is said to be an active catalytic species. Even the internal alkenes 558 can be hydrosilylated in the presence of a Pt catalyst with concomitant isomerization of the double bond from an internal to a terminal position to give terminal silylalkanes 559. The oxidative addition of hydrosilane to form R Si—Pt—H 560 is the first step of the hydrosilylation, and insertion of alkenes to the Pt—H bond gives 561, and the alkylsilane 562 is obtained by reductive elimination. 

Peris and coworkers have also disclosed Ir and Rh complexes 33 and 34 which can catalyze the hydrosilylation of alkynes [77]. Again, poor selectivity was observed as mixtures of the -trans, [ -cis, and a addition products were obtained. Generally speaking, it was found that Rh catalysts were more reactive than the Ir catalyst and the dimetallic complexes were much more active than their monometallic counterparts. It is believed that the difference in reactivity between the dimetallic and monometallic complexes arises from the dimetallic species ability to oxidize to the corresponding M(III) species, thus preventing oxidative addition of the silane. 

Jimenez R, Martinez-Rosales JM, Cervantes J. (2003) The activity of Pt/SiO catalysts obtained by sol-gel method in the hydrosilylation of alkynes. Can. J. Chem. 81 1370-1375... 

Not surprisingly, these rhodium and iridium carbene complexes were tested for their catalytic behaviour in the transfer hydrogenation of benzophenone and acetophenone (M +3), the hydrosilylation of alkynes (M +1) and also the catalytic cyclisation of acetylenic carboxylic acids (M +1). Hydrogenation works better for iridium than rhodium and for aromatic than for aliphatic ketones [40,43,44]. The iridium(I) complex is the first iridium catalyst showing activity for the cyclisation of acetylenic carboxylic acids [40]. The results for the hydrosilylation reactions were very moderate. 

T-Olefin platinum(O) complexes are important starting materials for oxidative addition see Oxidative Addition) or catalysts. Karstedt s catalysts, which are the most active ones for hydrosilylation, have been structurally characterized and found to show the structure of Pt2(M y M y )3 (9), wherein = divinyltetramethyldisiloxane." A styrene analogue Pt°(styrene)3 provides a convenient route to get an r-alkyne platinum complex by displacement (Scheme 27). DFT calculations indicate that aUcyne in the... 

The addition of a Si-H bond to a carbon-carbon double or triple bond is one of the most important transformations in organosilicon chemistry. The catalytic hydrosilylation of terminal alkynes yields three isomers, as shown in Scheme 8.37. Regio-selectivity, as well as stereoselectivity, are therefore important issues, and are the driving forces to select active new catalysts. 

Whereas the catalytic hydrosilylation of alkynes was one of the first methods of controlled reduction and functionalization of alkynes, the ruthenium-catalyzed hydroamination of alkynes has emerged only recently, but represents a potential for the selective access to amines and nitrogen-containing heterocydes. It is also noteworthy that, in parallel, the ruthenium activation of inert C-H bonds allowing alkyne insertion and C-C bond formation also represents innovative aspects that warrant future development. Among catalytic additions to alkynes for the production of useful products, the next decade will clearly witness an increasing role for ruthenium-vinylidenes in activation processes, and also for the development of ruthenium-catalyzed hydroamination and C-H bond activation. 

Rhodium complexes of various types, e.g. IRhCI(PPh3)3], [RhCl(CO)(PPh,3)2], [lRhCl(CO)2 2l, [RhH(CO)(PPh3)3], [(RhCl(CgHi4)212] and [ RhCl(C2H4)2 2], are available for the hydrosilylation of alkenes and alkynes as well as enones and ketones. Under strictly deoxygenated conditions with the pure rhodium complex, the reaction is extremely slow, and a trace amount of oxygen or peroxide is necessary to activate the catalyst. ... 

A successful study of non-phosphine iridium complexes Ir", Ir , and Ir e. g., IrX(cod)2 [60], IrH2(triso)(SiMePh2)2 [61, 62], Ir(triso)(coe)2 (coe = cyclooctene triso = tris(diphenyloxophosphoranyl)methanide), Ir(triso)(C2H4)2 [61], has demonstrated effective hydrosilylation of alkenes and alkynes. Iridium phosphine complexes, e. g., Ir(C=CPh)(CO)2PCy2 [63] and IrCl(CO)(PPh3)2 [64], are also found to be active for hydrosilylation of phenylacetylene and 1-hexyne. 

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