Coupling alkenes/vinylsilanes

Catalytic activity of synthesised Rh(I) siloxide complexes has been demonstrated in some reactions, i.e. in the hydrosilylation of alkenes [17] and allyl alkyl ethers [14, 18, 19] and in the silylative coupling of vinylsilanes with alkenes [20]. 

Vinylsilanes react with boron trichloride to give the corresponding borodesilylation products in good yield which, in turn, can be transformed into boronic esters 124 by alcoholysis (equation 102). The initial dichloroorganoborane products can be used directly in the Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction192. Replacement of a carbon-silicon bond by a carbon-tin bond in fluorinated alkenes (e.g. 125) can be achieved by the reaction of silanes with Bu3SnCl and KF in DMF under mild conditions (equation 103)193. It is... 

Activation of vinyl C-H bonds with RuH2(CO)(PPh3)3 catalyst has allowed the formal insertion of a,/l-unsaturated ketones or esters into the C-H bond of vinylsilanes and led to a regioselective C-C coupling at the -position [9] (Eq. 6). Activation of the sp2 C-H bond occurred with the aid of chelation of a coordinating functional group and provided vinylruthenium hydride 14. Insertion of olefin afforded the tetrasubstituted alkene 13. The ruthenium activation of a variety of inert C-H bonds has now been performed by Murai [10]. 

Silylative Coupling (trans-Silylation) of Alkenes with Vinylsilanes. 207... 

Alkenylsilanes, mainly vinyl silanes and allyl silanes or related compounds, being widely used intermediates for organic synthesis can be efficiently prepared by several reactions catalyzed by transition-metal complexes, such as dehy-drogenative silylation of alkenes, hydrosilylation of alkynes, alkene metathesis, silylative coupling of alkenes with vinylsilanes, and coupling of alkynes with vinylsilanes [1-7]. Ruthenium complexes have been used for chemoselective, regioselective and stereoselective syntheses of unsaturated products. 

Evidence for the migratory insertion of ethylene [46] and vinylsilane [47] into the Ru-Si bond yielding vinylsilane and two bis(silyl)ethene regioisomers [E-l,2-bis(silyl)ethene and l,l-bis(silyl)ethene],respectively,has proved that in the reaction referred to as the metathesis of vinylsilanes and their cometathesis with olefins, instead of the C=C bond cleavage formally characterizing alkene metathesis (Eq. 24a), a new type of olefin conversion that is a silylative coupling of olefins with vinylsilanes occurs (Eq. 24b). 

Contrary to expectations based on the efficient silylative coupling of the heteroatom (O, N, Si and B), functionalized alkenes with vinylsilanes catalyzed by Ru-H and/or Ru-Si-containing complexes do not undergo this transformation, which has been explained by formation of an Ru-S complex into which no insertion of vinylsilanes (a step necessary in the catalytic cycle of SC) was observed. 

Vinylsilanes undergo productive cross-metathesis (CM) and silylative coupling (SC) with allyl-substituted (N, B)functionalized alkenes to yield l-silyl-3,Ar, -substituted propenes with preference (for V-derivatives) and exclusive formation (for boronates) of the f-isomer. 

Ito et al. have reported that a sequence of intramolecular hydrosilylation or cya-nosilylation and the Pd-catalyzed coupling reaction is useful for regio- and stereo-defined synthesis of tri- or tetrasubstituted homoallyl alcohols from homopropargyl alcohols (Scheme 10.212) [551, 552]. More recently Denmark et al. have used ring-closing metathesis for the alkene synthesis via vinylsilanes [553]. 

Vinylsilanes 132 have been reacted with bromomalononitrile to yield the intermediate 133, which was used for the synthesis of cyclopropane derivatives Addition reactions of dichloromalononitrile with substituted alkenes and alkadienes can also be used for the preparation of intermediates in carbo- and heterocyclic synthesis. 2-Arylmalononitriles 135 have been produced by coupling malononitriles with aryllead(IV) triacetates like 134163. 

The E) alkene (21) was obtained from 2-iodoselenophene as an example of a general coupling reaction between iodoarenes and vinylsilanes <86JOC5286>. 

Subsequent extensive synthetic and catalytic studies have shown Aat silylative coupling of alkenes with vinyl-substituted silicon compounds proceeds (similarly to the hydrosilylation and dehydrogenative silylation reactions) via active intermediates containing M-Si (silicometallics) and M-H bonds (where M = Ru, Rh, Ir, Co, Fe). The insertion of alkene into M-Si bonds and vinylsilanes into M-H bonds, followed by elimination of vinylsilane and ethene, respectively, are the key steps in this new process [9]. 

While vinylsilanes undergo productive cross-metathesis (Mo and Ru carbenes) with allyl-substituted functionalized alkenes, their effective transformation with derivatives containing a fimctionalized group attached directly to a carbon -carbon double bond can be achieved only via silylative coupling catalyzed by metal complexes containing (or generating) M-H and/or M-Si bonds (M = Ru, Rh, Ir). 

The main advantage of using silyl ethers in cross<oupling reactions is the ability to incorporate them into molecules by a number of methods. Cyclic silyl ethers, as a class, nicely illustrate this attribute. The well-known hydrosilylation of alkynes to form vinylsilanes can easily be rendered intramolecular by attachment of the silane as, for example, a homopropargyl silyl ether to form an oxasilacyclopentane 108 (Scheme 7.28) [53]. In this stmcture, the double-bond geometry is defined by the stereochemical course of hydrosilylation and the ether tether defines the location of the silicon atom with respect to the alkene. Thus, the siHcon-oxygen bond in this molecule serves to direct the hydrosilylation, as well as to activate the siHcon for cross-coupling. 

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