Reaction Conditions for Silylation, Stannylation and Phosphorylation

An excellent review by Cadiot and Chodkiewicz has appeared in the book Chemistry of Acetylenes [6]. The introduction of the heteroatom may be represented by the following, general scheme  

The reactions, usually carried out in organic solvents, proceed under mild conditions and often give high yields of the desired compounds. Compounds in which the hetero-atom bears one alkynyl group are better known than the poly -alkynyl derivatives. This can be explained in part by the readier availability of the mono-halogeno compounds R nYX and by a lower 

The experimental part of this chapter contains a few procedures with typical combinations of reaction conditions which should enable the user of this book to derive the experimental parameters for a particular conversion. Of course, the remarks mentioned above are also valid for some other functionalizations, e.g. stannylation. 

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