Hydrosilylations of styrenes

Concerning enantioselective processes, Fujihara and Tamura have proved that palladium NPs containing (S)-BINAP (2,2 -bis(diphenylphosphino)-l,l -binaphthyl) as chiral stabiliser, catalyse the hydrosilylation of styrene with trichlorosilane, obtaining (S)-l-phenylethanol as the major isomer (ee = 75%) [42]. In contrast, the palladium complex [Pd(BINAP)(C3H5)]Cl is inactive for the same reaction [43]. 

Palladium-catalyzed hydrosilylation of styrene derivatives usually proceeds with high regioselectivity to produce benzylic silanes, 1-aryl-1-silyle thanes, because of the... 

Scheme 10.52 Pd-catalysed hydrosilylation of styrene with S/P-heterodonor ligands.

A summary of the ligand effects of the palladium-catalyzed enantioselective hydrosilylation of styrene is given in Table 9. 

Table 9 Palladium-catalyzed asymmetric hydrosilylation of styrene.

The asymmetric hydrosilylation that has been most extensively studied so far is the palladium-catalyzed hydrosilylation of styrene derivatives with trichlorosilane. This is mainly due to the easy manipulation of this reaction, which usually proceeds with perfect regioselectivity in giving benzylic silanes, 1-aryl-1-silylethanes. This regioselectivity is ascribed to the formation of stable 7t-benzylpalladium intermediates (Scheme 3).1,S Sa It is known that bisphosphine-palladium complexes are catalytically much less active than monophosphine-palladium complexes, and, hence, asymmetric synthesis has been attempted by use of chiral monodentate phosphine ligands. In the first report published in 1972, menthyldiphenylphosphine 4a and neomenthyldiphenylphosphine 4b have been used for the palladium-catalyzed reaction of styrene 1 with trichlorosilane. The reactions gave l-(trichlorosilyl)-l-phenylethane 2 with 34% and 22% ee, respectively (entries 1 and 2 in Table l).22 23... 

Use of ferrocenylmonophosphine (fU-(A)-PPFA 5a for the same reaction improved the enantioselectivity.24,25,26 Here, the hydrosilylation product was oxidized into ( y)-l-phenylethanol 3 with 52% ee (entry 3). The ferrocenylmonophosphine 6 supported on Merrifield polystyrene resin has been also used for the hydrosilylation of styrene, though the enantioselectivity was lower (15% ee) (entry 4).27 Several chiral (/ -/V-sulfonylaminoalkyl)phosphines 7 were prepared from (A)-valinol and used for the asymmetric hydrosilylation of styrene.28 For styrene, phosphine 7a which contains methanesulfonyl group was most effective giving (asymmetric hydrosilylation (entries 6-9).29,29a... 

The palladium-catalyzed asymmetric hydrosilylation of styrenes has been applied to the catalytic asymmetric synthesis of l-aryl-l,2-diols from arylacetylenes (Scheme 6).46 Thus, ( )-l-aryl-2-(trichlorosilyl)ethenes, which are readily generated by platinum-catalyzed hydrosilylation of arylacetylenes, were treated with trichlorosilane and the palladium catalyst coordinated with MOP ligand 12f to give 1 -aryl-1,2-bis(silyl)ethanes, oxidation of which produced the enantiomerically enriched (95-98% ee) 1,2-diols. 

A chiral bis(oxazolinyl)phenylrhodium complex was found to catalyze the asymmetric hydrosilylation of styrenes with hydro(alkoxy)silanes such as HSiMe(OEt)2 (Scheme 7).47 Although the regioselectivity in forming branched product 27 is modest, the enantiomeric purity of the branched product 27 is excellent for styrene and its derivatives substituted on the phenyl group. The hydrosilylation products were readily converted into the corresponding benzylic alcohols 29 (up to 95% ee) by the Tamao oxidation. 

Abstract The enantioselective hydrosilylation of styrene catalyzed by Pd° species... 

Table /. Results of the hydrosilylation of styrene and its derivatives with trichlorosilane with 1 as a catalyst precursor.

Using quantum chemical molecular modelling tools we have examined the reaction mechanism of palladium catalyzed hydrosilylation of styrene by the precatalyst system, 1, developed by Togni and co-workers. One fundamental question that we have focused on is whether the reaction proceeds by the classical Chalk-Harrod mechanism or by an alternative mechanism such as the modified-Chalk-Harrod mechanism. In this section, the general features of the catalytic cycle are examined. 

In this and subsequent sections, we investigate the reaction mechanism of the palladium catalyzed hydrosilylation of styrene via ah initio molecular dynamics and combined quantum mechanics and molecular mechanics (QM/MM) techniques. Both methodologies constitute powerful approaches for the study of the catalytic activity and selectivity of transition metal... 

An inversion of enantioselectivity was observed experimentally for the hydrosilylation of a series of para-substituted styrenes as shown in Table 1. We intend to examine the nature of the enatioselectivity by studying the catalytic cycle for styrene which reacts to give predominately the S form of the product (64% S ee) and for 4-(dimethylamino)styrene, which gives predominately the stereochemical opposite product (64% R ee). Although we have already examined the hydrosilylation of styrene in Section 3 and 4, in this section we focus on enantioselectivity of the catalytic process for comparison to the hydrosilylation with 4-(dimethylamino)styrene. 

A detailed study of the mechanism of the enantioselective palladium catalyzed hydrosilylation of styrene with trichlorosilane was carried out with combined QM/MM ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. A number of fundamental mechanistic questions have been addressed, including the main features of the catalytic cycle, as well as the specific nature of the regioselectivity and enatioselectivity. 

Hydrosilylation of o-allylstyrene (82) with trichlorosilane in the presence of 0.3mol% of a palladium catalyst bearing triphenylphosphine has been found to produce a mixture of indane (83) and the open-chain products (84) and (85) (Scheme 11). The reaction of styrene with trichlorosilane gave a quantitative yield of 1-phenyl-l-(trichlorosilyl)ethane whereas allylbenzene did not give silylation products under the same reaction conditions. These results show that the hydropalladation process is operative in the hydrosilylation of styrene derivatives with trichlorosilane catalysed by palladium-phosphine complexes." ... 

A family of cationic catalysts such as [Ir(cod)(PCy3)Py] [PF6]" [19] and zwitter-ionic [20] Ir(I) complexes have been tested in the hydrosilylation of styrene, and represent an effective class of the hydrosilylation catalysts to yield predominantly P-adduct accompanied by a-adduct and traces of unsaturated products (see Table 14.1). 

The regioselectivity of hydrosilylation of arylalkenes strongly depends on the catalyst. Hydrosilylation of styrene catalyzed by H2PtCl6 is not selective and produces a mixture of regioisomers.429 Cocatalysts, such as PPh3, however, increase the selectivity of the formation of the anti-Markovnikov product [Eq. (6.71)]. Nickel catalysts, in contrast, bring about the formation of the Markovnikov adduct430 [Eq. (6.72) 429]... 

TABLE 2.4. Asymmetric Hydrosilylation of Styrene Derivatives with MOP-Pd Catalysts 1... 

Asymmetric hydrosilylation of styrene with HSiCl3 catalyzed by a palladium complex of a chiral ferrocenylphosphine attached to cross-linked polystyrene support at 70 °C gives PhMeC HSiCl3 in quantitative yield with only 15.2% ee65. 

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