Silicon cross coupling reactions

In contrast to the transition metals, where there is often a change in oxidation level at the metal during the reaction, there is usually no change in oxidation level for boron, silicon, and tin compounds. The synthetically important reactions of these three groups of compounds involve transfer of a carbon substituent with one (radical equivalent) or two (carbanion equivalent) electrons to a reactive carbon center. Here we focus on the nonradical reactions and deal with radical reactions in Chapter 10. We have already introduced one important aspect of boron and tin chemistry in the transmetallation reactions involved in Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions, discussed... 

In a simple strategy to biaryl formation, Han et al.89 showed that silicon-directed ipso-substitution and concomitant cleavage from supports could be used for formation of functionalized biphenyls. For this they used a tethered silyl aryl bromide in a Suzuki cross-coupling reaction, followed by the ipso-substitution/cleavage step (Scheme 39). A variety of boronic acids were coupled in this manner. The only difficulty occurred with electron-deficient nitrophenylboronic acid where the desired product was formed under anhydrous conditions in only 33% yield (the remainder being starting material). Reversion to the more usual conditions of aqueous base-DME (i.e., those used by Frenette and Friesen)70 improved the yield to 82%. 

Han, Y. Walker, S. D. Young, R. N. Silicon Directed ipso-Substitution of Polymer Bound Arylsilanes Preparation of Biaryls via the Suzuki Cross-Coupling Reaction, Tetrahedron Lett. 1996, 37, 2703—2706. 

Han Y, Walker SD, Young RN, Silicon directed ipso-substitution of polymer bound arylsilanes preparation of biaryls via the Suzuki cross-coupling reaction, Tetrahedron Lett., 37 2703-2706, 1996. 

Synthetic reactions involving activation of alkenyl- and arylsilanes by copper salts have also been reported. A copper-mediated system is effective in the cross-coupling reaction of aryl- and heteroarylsilanes with aryl halides under Pd-free conditions (Equation (13)).66 Alkenyl- and arylsilanes as well as alkynylsilanes undergo homocoupling in the presence of Cul and air.65,65a Functionalized alkenyl- and arylsilanes bearing a coordination site in the vicinity of silicon (e.g., 7) are easily activated by copper salts even at room temperature (Scheme 5).67,67l 67e 68 q-jle organocoppers such as 8 are useful for carbon-carbon bond-forming reaction with carbon electrophiles. 

Scheme 1 General procedure of silicone polymer synthesis by cross-coupling reaction...

The following mechanism is suggested for the cross-coupling of alkenylsilanes. Nucleophilic attack of a fluoride ion to the silicon atom of alkenylsilanes is first assumed to afford a pentacoordinate silicate and enhance both nucleophilicity of the silicon-substituted carbon and Lewis acidity of silicon to assist transmetalation effectively through a four-centered transition state (Scheme 2). Lewis acidity on silicon is critical as evidenced by the fact that hexacoordinate pentafluorosilicates that are fully coordinated and thus should have sufficient nucleophilicity are much less effective for the cross-coupling reaction (Eq. 2, vide supra). 

Denmark SE, Kallemeyn JM (2005) Synthesis of 3,4,5-trisubstituted isoxazoles via sequential [3+2] cycloaddition/silicon-based cross-coupling reactions. J Org Chem 70 2839-2842... 

It is a palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction between organosilanes (vinyl, ethynyl and allylsilanes) and organic halides (aryl, vinyl and allyl halides). Allylpal-ladium chloride dimmer [( ri -C3H5PdCl)2] and either tris(diethylamino)sulfonium difluorotrimethylsilicate (TASF) or tetra-n-butylammonium fluoride (TBAF) are used as catalysts. Fluoride ion acts as an activator for the coupling, forming an intermediate hypervalent anionic silicon species, which can then transmetallate with palladium as a preliminary reaction to coupling. 

In 1999, Demnark disclosed that silacyclobutane derivatives (34) were very effective coupling partners for the transfer of alkenyl and aryl groups. The original theory was that the release of strain energy upon treatment with fluoride to make the silicon pentacoordinate is what made these species so active. However, later studies showed that under the conditions of the cross-coupling reactions, silacyclobutanes formed silanols (35) and disoloxanes (36), which themselves proved... 

Sequential [3+2] cycloaddition/silicon-based cross-coupling reactions allowed for the synthesis of 3,4,5-trisubsti-tuted isoxazoles. Regioselective 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition reactions between alkynyldimethylsilyl ethers 400 and ethyl or phenyl nitrile oxides, generated in situ from 1-nitropropane and A -hydroxybenzene carboximidoyl chloride, respectively, gave as predominant products after hydrolysis isoxazol-4-ylsilanols 401, converted into 4-arylisoxazoles 402 by cross-coupling with a variety of aryl iodides (Scheme 97) <2005JOC2839>. 

The same reaction conditions were applied to the coupling reaction of Trimethyl(vinyl)silane [Eq.(3)] with limited success [3], Thus, the mechanism of these silicon-based reactions appears to be different from those of the cross-coupling reactions using the main-group metal reagents. 

A similar mechanism is suggested for the cross-coupling reaction of vinylbis(catecolato)siliconates [Eq.(14)] [11]. 

The organo.silicon-based cross-coupling reactions discussed here are summarized in Eq.(42). The number of fluorine atom on silicon depends on the substituent which participates in the coupUng reaction. 

New, silicon-based, cross-coupling reactions with the participation of silatranes, cyclic polysiloxanes, and Si-derivatives of heterocycles 02ACR835. 

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