Tandem silylformylation/allylation

The tandem silylformylation-allylation methodology is extended to remote 1,5-stereocontrol [22]. Thus, treatment of homopropargylic hydrosilyl ethers 60, produces, in a manner similar to homoallylic hydrosilyl ethers 56, 3-silyl-l,5-diol 61 whose oxidation or protodesilylation/acetylation gives, respectively, l,5-a ti diol 62 or diacetate 63 with high diastereoselectivity (Scheme 5.15). The 1,5-anti selectivity contrasts sharply to the one obtained in the tandem reaction of homoallylic sUyl ethers 56. 

Tandem intramolecular silylformylation-allylation reaction of diallylhydrosilyl ethers derived from homoallyl alcohols is convenient for rapid, stereoselective synthesis of 1,3,5-triols convertible to more oxygen-functionalized compounds (Scheme 12).142,142a,142b 143 [ he second uncatalyzed allylation step would be facilitated by the formation of a strained silacycle intermediate, which has enough Lewis acidity to activate the formyl group. A similar tandem reaction via alkyne silylformylation has been reported.144... 

One of the important advantages of the intramolecular alkene silylformylation reaction as an aldol equivalent is that the products are masked 3,5-dihydroxyalkanals, and therefore that no manipulations are required prior to iteration of the process by aldehyde al-lylation to set up the next intramolecular silylformylation. Given that allylsilanes are well-known aldehyde allylation reagents, intramolecular silylformylation employing a diallylhydrosilane would, in principle, allow for the possibility of a tandem silylformyla-tion/allylsilylation reaction. This has been reduced to practice the diaUylsilyl ethers 60 were subjected to the previously developed silylformylation conditions and the unpuri-fied reaction mixtures were subjected to the Tamao oxidation ]36] to provide triols 61... 

Bis(allyl)homoallyloxysilanes 56a and 56b are designed for a tandem intramolecular silylformylation-allylsUylation reaction, which has turned out to be an efficient approach to construct polyol and polyketide frameworks [21], For example, heating a solution of 56 in benzene at 60 °C in the presence of Rh(acac)(CO)2 under CO atmosphere followed by the Tamao oxidation gives syn,syn-triols 59 stereoselectively via oxasilacyclopentanes 57 and 58 (Scheme 5.14). Bis(ds-cro-tyl)silane 56b is readily prepared by double Pd-catalyzed 1,4-hydrosilylation of 1,3-butadiene with dichlorosilane followed by reduction with UAIH4 and alcoholysis with the corresponding homoallylic alcohol. 

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