Arylsilane

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A trialkylsilyl group can be introduced into aryl or alkenyl groups using hexaalkyidisilanes. The Si—Si bond is cleaved with a Pd catalyst, and trans-metallation and reductive elimination afford the silylated products. In this way, 1,2-bis-silylethylene 761 is prepared from 1,2-dichloroethylene (760)[625,626], The facile reaction of (Me3Si)2 to give 762 proceeds at room temperature in the presence of fluoride anion[627]. Alkenyl- and arylsilanes are prepared by the reaction of (Me3Si)3Al (763)[628],... 

The versatility of lithium aluminum hydride permits synthesis of alkyl, alkenyl, and arylsilanes. Silanes containing functional groups, such as chloro, amino, and alkoxyl in the organic substituents, can also be prepared. Mixed compounds containing both SiCl and SiH cannot be prepared from organopolyhalosilanes using lithium aluminum hydride. Reduction is invariably complete. 

The most useful group of aromatic substitutions involving replacement of a substituent group in preference to a hydrogen are electrophilic substitutions of arylsilanes. 

A subsidiary approach involves nuclear modification of the arylsilanes so obtained. The requisite organometallics can be prepared from aryl halides, or by deprotonation of a suitably activated (c.g. methoxy-substituted) arene. A more specialized route involves cycloaddition between alkynylsilanes and diynes. 

Aminosilanes, 87-9 Artemisia ketone, 33 Aryl silyl ethers, 41 Arylsilanes, 39-43 Arylsulphonylhydrazones, 12 Aryltrimethylsilanes, 39, 42,43 Azetidin-2-ones, 70 Azetidin-2-one 4-carboxylic acids, 92... 

With alkyl- and arylsilanes, concurrent isomerization and hydrosilylation occur, but the rates of both processes fall away rapidly due to some reduction to the metal such deactivation is temperature-dependent, and high yields of adduct are obtained with these silanes when additions are carried out slowly at ambient temperature. 

Phenyltrimethoxysilane 75 is activated by fluoride anion to 76, which undergoes palladium-catalyzed couphng with 4-methyliodobenzene 77 to give a nearly quantitative yield of 4-methyldiphenyl 78 [90]. Such Heck-, Stille-, or Suzuki-type C-C coupling of arylsilanes such as 75 were recently reviewed [91] (Scheme 2.12). 

Chenera B, Finkelstein JA, Veber DF. Protodetachable arylsilane polymer linkages for use in solid phase organic synthesis. J Am Chem Soc 1995 117 11999-12000. 

The results for arylsilanes are not fully understood, but the spectra may reflect partial tacticity in these polymers. Further work is needed studies of model compounds with known relative configuration would be particularly helpful. Silicon-29 NMR of polysilane copolymers also shows great promise, especially for distinguishing block-like from fully random copolymers. 

Mono- and bis(silyl)platinum(II) complexes are believed to play important catalytic roles in hydrosilylation, dehydrocoupling, and double silylation reactions with disilanes and hydrosilanes. A stable, mono(silyl)platinum(II) complex has been prepared by the oxidative addition reaction of the sterically hindered, primary arylsilane 2,6-Mes2C6H3SiH3 (Mes = 2,4,6-trimethylbenzene) to the platinum(O) species [Pt(PPr3)3] in hexane solution at room temperature.133 The colorless product m-[PLl 1(2,6-Mes2C6II3(11 )2Si)(PPr3)2] (21) was isolated as the OPPr3 adduct, and its... 

Another important aspect is the very simple preparation of the silyltriflates. Systematic investigations of the cleavage of the silicon element bond (Si-E) by CF3SO3H have shown that the reaction rate decreases in the sequence (E=) a-naphthyl > phenyl > Cl > H > alkyl [3]. Therefore especially pure silyltriflates result from protodesilylation of arylsilanes with CF3SO3H. On the basis of these general results the synthesis of a large number of variously substituted silyltriflates [4,5] can be planned. This is of particular interest in the chemistry of oligosilanes. 

Li and co-workers also reported a highly efficient conjugate addition reaction with arylsilanes as nucleophilic reagents. The reaction of 2-cyclohexenone with 4 equiv. of either diphenyldichlorosilane or phenylmethyldichlorosilane in water generated the conjugate addition product in 97% and 95% yields, respectively (Scheme 55).143 An excess of sodium fluoride additive was important in this reaction. 

The scope of arylsilane nucleophiles has been extended to poly(phenylmethylsiloxane), which is used industrially as a highly thermoresistant silicone oil (Scheme 57).142... 

Allylsilanes and benzylsilanes are more susceptible to anodic oxidation than tetraalklsilanes and arylsilanes. It should also be noted that the oxidation potentials of allylsilanes and benzyl silanes are much less positive than those of... 

We know that reduction potentials of arylsilanes are less negative than those of the corresponding aromatic compounds without silyl substituents (Sect. 2.2.1). The effect of silyl groups to facilitate the electron transfer to the neigbouring aromatic group is explained in terms of p interaction. For example, half wave reduction potentials of naphthylsilanes are less negative than that of... 

The initial electron transfer to form the anion radical species seems to be reversible. For example, Allred et al. investigated the ac polarography of bis(trimethylsilyl)benzene and its derivatives which showed two waves in di-methylformamide solutions [71] the first one is a reversible one-electron wave, and the second one corresponds to a two-electron reduction. Anion radicals generated by electrochemical reduction of arylsilanes have been detected by ESR. The cathodic reduction of phenylsilane derivatives in THF or DME at — 16° C gives ESR signals due to the corresponding anion radicals [5] (See Sect. 2.2.1). 

Many unsaturated organosilicon compounds undergo facile electrophilic substitution reactions. The arylsilanes also appear to be activated towards electrophilic substitution. Substitution normally takes place exclusively at the site of silicon atom. 

Regioselective condensations of vinylallenones with enamines gave highly substituted arylsilanes 203 after acidic workup [171]. 

The interconnection of two phosphanide substituents by sterically demanding RR Si groups allows the preparation of cage compounds [38], The two-fold lithia-tion of bis(phosphanyl)(alkyl)arylsilane and the dimerization of this bis(phos-phanido)silane leads to the formation of 19 with a strongly distorted Li4P4 hetero-cubane structure according to Eq. (5). 

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