Oxidation disilanes

Cyclic disilanes, oxidation with molecular oxygen, 815-19... 

Keywords Disilanes / Oxidative Addition / Phosphinoalkylsilanes / Chelate Assistance / Hydrido-Silyl Complexes... 

Aroyl chlorides undergo silylative decarbonylation to give arylsilanes by the reaction of disilanes. Oxidative addition of aroyl chlorides and decarbonylation are followed by transmetallation with disilane to generate (aryl)silylpalladium, and its reductive elimination gives arylsilanes. For example, neat trimellitic anhydride add chloride reacted with dichlorotetramethyldisilane at 145 °C to afford 4-(chlorodimethylsilyl)phthalic anhydride by decarbonylation and reductive elimination. Also, trimellitic anhydride add chloride was converted to biphenyltetracarboxylic anhydride at 165 °C in refluxing mesitylene by reaction of the disilane. Thus, decarbonylation-coupling of aroyl chlorides offers a good synthetic method of biaryls (Scheme 7). ... 

Oxidation. AH inorganic siUcon hydrides are readily oxidized. Silane and disilane are pyrophoric in air and form siUcon dioxide and water as combustion products thus, the soot from these materials is white. The activation energies of the reaction of silane with molecular and atomic oxygen have been reported (20,21). The oxidation reaction of dichlorosilane under low pressure has been used for the vapor deposition of siUcon dioxide (22). 

Whereas ethylene oxide gives with 17 at ambient temperature a quantitative yield of l-trimethylsilyloxy-2-iodoethane [5, 31], substituted epoxides such as 846b react with 17 to give 848 as the main product [32]. Excess 17, however, leads to the bis-iodo compounds 849 and HMDSO 7 [4, 5]. In the presence of DBU the epoxides 850 are converted by 17, which is generated in situ from hexamethyl-disilane 857 and I2, into the allyl alcohols 851 [4, 32] (Scheme 6.14). Cycloctene epoxide 852 is opened by SiCl4 at -78 °C in the presence of catalytic amounts of the asymmetric catalyst 853 to give 61% of the chlorohydrin 854 in 98% ee [33]. 

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... 

Palladium-catalyzed bis-silylation of methyl vinyl ketone proceeds in a 1,4-fashion, leading to the formation of a silyl enol ether (Equation (47)).121 1,4-Bis-silylation of a wide variety of enones bearing /3-substituents has become possible by the use of unsymmetrical disilanes, such as 1,1-dichloro-l-phenyltrimethyldisilane and 1,1,1-trichloro-trimethyldisilane (Scheme 28).129 The trimethylsilyl enol ethers obtained by the 1,4-bis-silylation are treated with methyllithium, generating lithium enolates, which in turn are reacted with electrophiles. The a-substituted-/3-silyl ketones, thus obtained, are subjected to Tamao oxidation conditions, leading to the formation of /3-hydroxy ketones. This 1,4-bis-silylation reaction has been extended to the asymmetric synthesis of optically active /3-hydroxy ketones (Scheme 29).130 The key to the success of the asymmetric bis-silylation is to use BINAP as the chiral ligand on palladium. Enantiomeric excesses ranging from 74% to 92% have been attained in the 1,4-bis-silylation. 

The catalytic effect of tetra-n-butylammonium fluoride in the homogeneous reduction of heterocyclic A-oxides and nitroarenes by hexamethyldisilane in tetra-hydrofuran can occur with EXPLOSIVE violence, but can be controlled by the slow addition of the disilane to the A-oxide (or nitroarene) and tetra-n-butylammonium fluoride to yield the parent heterocycle (>70%) (or azobenzene 84%). In a similar manner, azoxybenzene is converted into azobenzene (95%), and 4-nitropyridine-l-oxide, is reduced to azoxypyridine-l,l -dioxide (78%), with minor amounts of azopyridine-1, l -dioxide and azopyridine-1-oxide [5,6]. 

Silylated triphosphanes and triphosphides, synthesis, 31 188-194 yields, 31 194 Silylenes, 29 2-6 addition reactions, 29 4-6 to butadiene, 29 4 to ethylene, 29 4 to hexadienes, 29 5 mechanism, 29 4 nitric oxide scavenging, 29 4 complexes, 25 37, 51, 116, 118 as catalyst intermediates, 25 118 extrusion from disilanes, 25 114, 118 halides, 3 225 from hydridosilanes, 25 14 insertion into element-hydrogen bonds, 29 3-4... 

B. Oxidation of Cyclic Disilanes with Molecular Oxygen. 815... 

Silicon and gennaninm peroxides TABLE 15. Oxidation of disilanes with bis(trimethylsilyl) peroxide... 

The authors propose that the influence of the phenyl group is not an electronic effect, as no product formation is observed with palladium catalysts known to be highly active in disilane systems substituted with electronegative elements. Rather, the phenyl group may allow for precoordination via a w-arene complex, which would accelerate the oxidative addition of an Si-Si bond to platinum, a key step in the proposed catalytic cycle. 

The oxidation potential decreases in the order Si—Si Si—Ge>Ge—Ge>Si—Sn> Ge—Sn >Sn—Sn in accord with the ionization potential (7P) of the corresponding dimetal. Anodic generation of silicenium ions from disilanes was also reported. The reduction potentials of silicenium ions were determined by cyclic voltammetry of neutral precursor disilanes49. The reduction potential shifted to the negative direction as the center element changed from C to Ge as shown in equation 44. 

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