Silylamide derivative, synthesis

As can be seen from Scheme III, lanthanide halides are suitable precursors for the synthesis of homoleptic derivatives such as silylamides [114], cyclopen-tadienyls [115] and aryloxides [116]. Such organometallies can be readily obtained in a pure form by sublimating them from the reaction mixture. They themselves are important precursors in organometallic transformations (vide infra). Heteroleptic complexes of the type CpxLn(halide)y (x + y = 2,3) are important synthetic precursors with respect to formation of various Ln-X bonds via simple metathesis reactions [2-29]. Fig. 4 indicates the lanthanide element bonds which are involved in these ubiquitous heteroleptic cyclopentadienyl systems. 

Silylamido groups are used throughout the periodic table to stabilize unusual types of bonding, coordination numbers and oxidation states. Lithium silylamides, generally prepared by reaction of the silylamine with alkyl- or aryllithium derivatives, play an important role in the synthesis of such molecules. 

Some multicomponent syntheses of trisubstituted oxazoles were described. a-Isocyano-a-alkyl(aryl)acetamides, as 131 <05S161>, was demonstrated to be a useful starting material for a three-component reaction involving isoquinoline 129 <05SL532>. A four-component synthesis was also published starting from an aldehyde, a silylamide, an acyl chloride and a terminal acetylene derivative. The overall process is a modification of a four-component synthesis of a propargylic amide 134 which can be eventually isolated <05T 11317>. 

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