3- silyl-2-alkenal 1-alkyne

FITS reagents), has undergone considerable development recently [141,142,143, 144, 14S. These compounds, available fromperfluoroalkyhodides (equation 76), are very effective electrophilicperfluoroalkylating agents They react with carban-lons, aromatic compounds, alkenes, alkynes, silyl enol ethers, and other nucleophiles under mild conditions to introduce the perfluoroalkyl moiety mto organic substrates (equation 77) (see the section on alkylation, page 446). 

Hydrosilylation can be applied to alkenes, alkynes, and aldehydes or ketones. A wide range of metal compounds can be used as a catalyst. The most common and active ones for alkenes and alkynes are undoubtedly based on platinum. Hydrosilylation of C-0 double bonds gives silyl ethers, which are subsequently hydrolysed to their alcohols. The reaction is of interest in its enantioselective version in organic synthesis for making chiral alcohols, as the achiral hydrogenation of aldehydes or ketones does not justify the use of expensive silanes as a reagent. 

A gold monohydride species was also suggested in the report by Ito and Sawamura et al. on the dehydrogenative silylation of alcohols by HSiEt3 and a diphosphine gold(I) complex. Reaction was selective for the silylation of hydroxy groups in the presence of alkyl halides, ketones, aldehydes, alkenes, alkynes and other functional groups [193]. 

Another modification of the double silylation process reported by Tanaka and co-workers involves the use of a bis(hydrosilane) instead of a disilane as the reactant molecule.61 This reaction can be described as a dehydrogenative double silylation, in that two Si-H bonds are activated rather than an Si-Si bond. The system is best catalyzed by Pt(CH2=CH2)(PPh3)2 other Pt, Pd, Ru, and Rh complexes give only very low yields of the double-silylated products. Alkynes, alkenes, and dienes undergo reaction with the bis (hydrosilane) with a range of results. Silicon-oxygen bonds and silicon-nitrogen bonds can also be formed by this method and are discussed in the appropriate sections later. 

Independent discovery of the silylformylation of alkynes was reported by the Matsuda and Ojima groups. The general reaction involves addition of both CO and tertiary hydrosilane to an alkyne to yield silyl alkenals, catalyzed by rhodium or rhodium-cobalt mixed metal clusters [Eq. (46)]. 

The intramolecular 2 + 2-photo-cycloadditions of optically active allenesilanes (5) with enones and enoates produce silyl-substituted exo-methylenecyclobutanes (6) in high enantiometric excess. Photo-desilation leads to the parent unsaturated exo-methylenecyclobutanes (7) (Scheme 3).19 The cycloaddition of naphthoquinone to allyltrimethylsilane in the presence of Me2 A1C1 yields the expected 2 + 2-cycloadduct that slowly rearranges to the 2 + 3-adduct.20 hi the presence of bases, Cephalosporin triflates (8) undergo 2 + 2- and 4 + 2-cycloaddition with alkenes, alkynes, and dienes via an intermediate six-membered cyclic allene (9) (Scheme 4).21... 

Full details42 have been published on the conversion of enynes into iminocyclopentenes using a titanium precatalyst in the presence of BuLi and TESCN (equation 9) the resulting iminocyclopentenes can be hydrolysed to cyclopentenones or reduced to allylic silyl-amines. In a related protocol43, the tandem insertion of TMSCN and alkenes, alkynes, ketones or isocyanates into zirconacyclo-pentanes or -pentenes leads to cyclopentylamines carrying an a-alkyl, -alkenyl, -1-hydroxyalkyl or -carboxamide substituent, respectively (equation 9). 

The radical-initiated allylation of alkyl halides with allyltris(trimethylsilyl)silanes proceeds via an SH2 process mediated by a tris(trimethylsilyl)silyl radical.225 The radical-allylating agents react with alkenes, alkynes, and aldehydes via a radical chain process to give the corresponding allylsilylation products.226... 

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