Silyl reaction with complexes

Mono- and bis(silyl)platinum(II) complexes are believed to play important catalytic roles in hydrosilylation, dehydrocoupling, and double silylation reactions with disilanes and hydrosilanes. A stable, mono(silyl)platinum(II) complex has been prepared by the oxidative addition reaction of the sterically hindered, primary arylsilane 2,6-Mes2C6H3SiH3 (Mes = 2,4,6-trimethylbenzene) to the platinum(O) species [Pt(PPr3)3] in hexane solution at room temperature.133 The colorless product m-[PLl 1(2,6-Mes2C6II3(11 )2Si)(PPr3)2] (21) was isolated as the OPPr3 adduct, and its... 

A useful catalyst for asymmetric aldol additions is prepared in situ from mono-0> 2,6-diisopropoxybenzoyl)tartaric acid and BH3 -THF complex in propionitrile solution at 0 C. Aldol reactions of ketone enol silyl ethers with aldehydes were promoted by 20 mol % of this catalyst solution. The relative stereochemistry of the major adducts was assigned as Fischer- /ir o, and predominant /i -face attack of enol ethers at the aldehyde carbonyl carbon atom was found with the (/ ,/ ) nantiomer of the tartaric acid catalyst (K. Furuta, 1991). 

The silyl group directs electrophiles to the substituted position. That is, it is an ipso-directing group. Because of the polarity of the carbon-silicon bond, the substituted position is relatively electron-rich. The ability of silicon substituents to stabilize carboca-tion character at )9-carbon atoms (see Section 6.10, p. 393) also promotes ipso substitution. The silicon substituent is easily removed from the c-complex by reaction with a nucleophile. The desilylation step probably occurs through a pentavalent silicon species ... 

Finally, the reaction of silyl anions with dichlorides of Zr and Hf, which provides the silyl complexes 28 and 29, should be mentioned [116]. 

An important contribution to silylium ion chemistry has been made by the group of Muller, who very recently published a series of papers describing the synthesis of intramolecularly stabilized silylium ions as well as silyl-substituted vinyl cations and arenium ions by the classical hydride transfer reactions with PhjC TPEPB in benzene. Thus, the transient 7-silanorbornadien-7-ylium ion 8 was stabilized and isolated in the form of its nitrile complex [8(N=C-CD3)]+ TPFPB (Scheme 2.15), whereas the free 8 was unstable and possibly rearranged at room temperature into the highly reactive [PhSi /tetraphenylnaphthalene] complex. ... 

Complex 12 was found to be a good reactant in the double-silylation reaction. Thus, thermolysis of a toluene solution of 12 and diphenylacetylene at 120°C for 12 h afforded 5,6-carboranylene-1,1,4,4-tetramethyl-2,3-diphenyl-1,4-disilacyclohex-2-ene 13. When 1-hexyne was employed in the reaction with 12 under the same reaction conditions, the five-membered disila ring compound 18 was isolated. A key feature in the h NMR spectrum of 18 includes a singlet at 6.24 ppm assigned to the vinyl proton. A characteristic high-frequency 13C NMR resonance at 138.50ppm provides evidence for a tethered sp2 carbon atom between the two silicon atoms. 

Preparative Applications of Anionic Silyl Complexes 3.1 Reactions with Organic Dihalides... 

The reaction of [LnM-SiR3]" with transition metal halides or halogeno complexes L mM Xx gives silyl-substituted heteronuclear complexes [Ln(R3Si)M]xM L m [2,5,18]. Stable complexes are usually only obtained if the metal complex fragment M L m is not too sterically demanding and if the resulting M-M bond is not too polar. A few examples are shown in Scheme 3. 

Deliberate and stepwise increase of the nuclearity of polynuclear complexes is possible by condensation reactions between silyl-substituted heteronuclear complexes [Ln(R3Si)M]xM L m and metal halides. Two such examples are shown in Scheme 3 (reaction of MeCp(CO)2(MePh2Si)Mn-HgPh with PhHgCl, and reaction of [MeCp(CO)2(MePh2Si)Mn]2Hg with HgBr2) [18]. 

In this context, it is interesting to note that the first synthesis of 2, 3 -0,0-cyclic phosphorothioate 22a was reported by Eckstein in 1968 [25], He also isolated pure Rp diastereomer by fractional crystallization of the triethylammonium salts [26] and used it as reference to determine the absolute configurations of the other phosphorothioate analogues [27], 2, 3 -0,0-Cyclic H-phosphonate 20a was used as a key substrate for the synthesis of uridine 2, 3 -0,0-cyclic boranophosphate 27. Silylation of H-phosphate 20a gave the phosphite triester 25 (two diastereomers). Its boronation, with simultaneous removal of the trimethylsilyl group, was achieved by its reaction with borane-A.A-diisopropylethylamine complex (DIPEA-BH3). 

DDQ ( red = 0.52 V). It is noteworthy that the strong medium effects (i.e., solvent polarity and added -Bu4N+PFproduct distribution (in Scheme 5) are observed both in thermal reaction with DDQ and photochemical reaction with chloranil. Moreover, the photochemical efficiencies for dehydro-silylation and oxidative addition in Scheme 5 are completely independent of the reaction media - as confirmed by the similar quantum yields (d> = 0.85 for the disappearance of cyclohexanone enol silyl ether) in nonpolar dichloromethane (with and without added salt) and in highly polar acetonitrile. Such observations strongly suggest the similarity of the reactive intermediates in thermal and photochemical transformation of the [ESE, quinone] complex despite changes in the reaction media. 

In relation to the mechanistic proposal, an interesting reactivity of (boryl)(silyl)platinum(n) complex has been reported.223 The complex is prepared by the reaction of silylborane with Pt(cod)2 complex via oxidative addition (Scheme 46). The (boryl)(silyl)platinum complex undergoes insertion of alkynes at the B-Pt bond to give (/3-borylalkenyl)(silyl)platinum(n) complex in high yield. Importantly, the insertion takes place regioselectively, with Pt-G bond formation at the internal. -carbon atom. This result may indicate that the boron-transition metal bond is more prone to undergo insertion of unsaturated molecules. 

Besides their application in asymmetric alkylation, sultams can also be used as good chiral auxiliaries for asymmetric aldol reactions, and a / -product can be obtained with good selectivity. As can be seen in Scheme 3-14, reaction of the propionates derived from chiral auxiliary R -OH with LICA in THF affords the lithium enolates. Subsequent reaction with TBSC1 furnishes the 0-silyl ketene acetals 31, 33, and 35 with good yields.31 Upon reaction with TiCU complexes of an aldehyde, product /i-hydroxy carboxylates 32, 34, and 36 are obtained with high diastereoselectivity and good yield. Products from direct aldol reaction of the lithium enolate without conversion to the corresponding silyl ethers show no stereoselectivity.32... 

Addition of the (l-silylalkyne)titanium complex to carbonyl compounds and imines occurs at the (3-position to the silyl group, as shown in Fig. 9.2. However, the reaction with sBuOH takes place exclusively at the carbon—titanium bond a to the silyl group to give the (P-silylalkenyl)titanium species, as in Eq. 9.5 (values in square brackets denote the regioselectivity) [24], where the vinyl—titanium bond is visualized by the outcome of the iodi-nolysis. The overall reaction can therefore be regarded as the hydrotitanation of silylace-... 

It is also possible to carry out a substrate-controlled reaction with aldehydes in an asymmetric way by starting with an acetylene bearing an optically active ester group, as shown in Eq. 9.8 [22]. The titanium—acetylene complexes derived from silyl propiolates having a camphor-derived auxiliary react with aldehydes with excellent diastereoselectivity. The reaction thus offers a convenient entry to optically active Baylis—Hillman-type allyl alcohols bearing a substituent (3 to the acrylate group, which have hitherto proved difficult to prepare by the Baylis—Hillman reaction itself. 

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