Silyl halides

Volatile silylamides are readily prepared by reacting a silyl halide with NH3, RNH2 or R2NH in the vapour phase or in Et20, e.g. ... 

Use of di-( -butyl)stannyl dichloride along with an acyl or silyl halide leads to addition of allylstannanes to the aldehydes.1728,172 Reaction is also promoted by butylstannyl trichloride.173 Both SnCl4 and SnCl2 also catalyze this kind of addition. 

Aral et al. (24) have devised a novel approach to ammonolysis wherein the silyl halide is modified by complexation to pyridine (py) prior to ammonolysis ... 

These precursors are generally prepared by alkane elimination (Equation (7a)) or—especially useful with bulkier substituents—the coupling of metal chlorides with lithium pnictides or silyl arsines (Equation (7b)) or salt elimination or silyl halide elimination reactions (Equation (7c)) ... 

Preparation of [l-(diethoxyphosphinyl)ethoxy]dimethyl-silane — Reaction of an aldehyde with a trialkyl phosphite in the presence of a silyl halide... 

In the instances of phosphorous and phosphonous acid systems, the generation of a new C-P bond via the classical Michaelis-Arbuzov reactions as noted above leads to products that are esters themselves. Isolation of the free acid product requires cleavage of the ester linkage in a separate reaction step, generally after isolation and purification of the initial product. The advent of silyl phosphorus reagents for the Michaelis-Arbuzov reaction allowed free acid products to be isolated simply by water workup of the reaction system. Further, since the byproduct was a silyl-halide, the general concern that the by-product halide would participate in an extraneous Michaelis-Arbuzov reaction was obviated. 

Several approaches have been used to overcome the stereochemical difficulties for intramolecular "alkyl transfer." One of these is to use a "trapping agent" in the reaction mixture with which the oxyanion site of the intermediate can react. A silyl halide works nicely for this purpose the halide anion facilitates the required dealkylation.206-210... 

This work was initiated in 1988 when Villacorta et al.71a reported the asymmetric conjugate addition of a Grignard reagent to 2-cyclohexenone. This study showed that 1,4-adducts with 4-14% ee were obtained in the presence of aminotroponeimine copper complex.713 Enhanced results (74% ee) were obtained by adding HMPA or silyl halides.71b Several other copper complexes were also used for inducing asymmetric conjugate addition reactions. Moderate results were obtained in most cases when THF was used as the solvent and HMPA as the additive. 

The first demonstration of fluorous synthesis was in the preparation of small (8-12 members) isoxazo-line and isoxazole libraries by the three-step procedure outlined in Figure 8.1461 All reactions were purified by three-phase liquid-liquid extraction. The starting substrates were simple allylic alcohols which were tagged with the fluorous silyl halide 5 to make substrates 6 for an ensuing dipolar cycloaddition. This was conducted by the Mukaiyama method with a large excess of nitro compound and... 

Silicon presents an attractive option among eledrophilic activating and dehydrating agents of hemiacetals because of the wide commercial availability of eledrophilic silicon sources. The two main classes of silicon electrophiles used, namely silyl halides and silyl sulfonates, have been demonstrated to promote a variety of glycosylations including some examples of oligosaccharide synthesis. 

One of the earliest reports of silicon-based eledrophilic adivation comes from the Koto laboratory on the use of silyl halide eledrophiles to promote the dehydrative glycosylation with hemiacetal donors [40,41]. In the readion (Scheme 3.5),... 

Scheme 2.28 Functionalized allenes obtained by 1,6-cuprate addition to acceptor-substituted enynes and regioselective enolate trapping with methyl triflate (77), aldehydes (78, 79), ketones (80) and silyl halides (81).

The reaction is stereoselective giving the Z-isomer as the major product with alkyl halides and silyl halides. Interestingly, E selectivity is observed with enolphosphates. 

Simultaneous treatment of a carbonyl compound with a Lewis acid and a tertiary amine or another weak base ( soft enolization ) can sometimes be used to generate enolates of sensitive substrates which would have decomposed under strongly basic reaction conditions [434]. Boron enolates, which readily react with aldehydes at low temperatures, can also be prepared in situ from sensitive, base-labile ketones or carboxylic acid derivatives [293, 295, 299]. Unwanted decomposition of a carbanion may also be prevented by generating it in the presence of an electrophile which will not react with the base (e.g. silyl halides or silyl cyanides [435]). 

Reaction of silylene 85 with silyl halides is believed to proceed via a similar reaction mechanism. The reactions are however less clean giving other products as well, such as silyldihalides 85X2. Similarly, during the reaction with germanium or tin(iv) chlorides, the dichloride 85C12 and the element(ll) chloride are formed <2006JOM811>. 

Silylamino)phosphines also react with various halides including ethyl bromoacetate, allyl bromide, and chloroformates. The initially-formed phosphonium salts eliminate silyl halides to afford functionalized phosphinimines Me3SiN=P (R)Me2 where R = -CH2C(0)0Et,... 

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