Trimethyl aryl silanes, reaction

Aryl tellurium trichlorides are easily converted to symmetrical or unsymmetrical diaryl tellurium dihalides via reactions with organometallic compounds (see p. 549). Trimethyl(aryl)silanes transfer only the aryl group to tellurium1. 

There are scattering examples that neutral organosilanes R-SiMe3 undergo a desilylative coupling reaction with aryl halides in the presence of a palladium catalyst. Hallberg and his co-workers disclosed that trimethyl(vinyl)silane reacts with an arylpalladium(II) complex to afford coupled products accompanied by aryl-substituted alkenylsilanes formed through the Heck type reaction... 

Although trimethyl(vinyl)silane undergoes the coupling reaction with aryl halides in the presence of TASF and a palladium catalyst as described in Section 1 (Eq. 3), those having an aliphatic substituent on vinyl fail to couple with aryl iodides under similar conditions, probably because they are not capable of affording pentacoordinate silicates efficiently owing to the electron-donating nature of the substituent. To assist the formation of the pentacoordinated intermediates, the methyl on silicon was replaced by fluorine [13]. The cou-... 

In a limited number of cases, arylsilanes react with aldehydes as if they were aryl Grignard or aryllithium reagents. Both trimethyl(perchlorophenyl)silane and trimethyl(perfluoro-phenyl)silane react with benzaldehyde to give the corresponding 7.-(pcrhalophenyl)bcnzyl tri-methylsilyl ethers.163 Benzaldehyde reacts completely with trimethyl(perfluorophenyl)silane in diethyl ether in the presence of either a catalytic amount of the potassium cyanide/18-crown-6 complex in less than 5 hours at room temperature or potassium fluoride in dimethylform-umide.164 In the case of aryltrimcthylsilanes containing electron-withdrawing substituents in the ortho position, the reaction is observed only under the conditions of nucleophilic catalysis by potassium fluoride or cesium fluoride. 

Trimethyl(trifluoromethyl)silane is easily fluorodesilylated by tris(dimethylamino)sulfonium difluorotrimethylsilicate [TASF(Me)], tetrabutylammonium fluoride, or tris(diethylamino) (methylamino)phosphonium hydrogen difluoride and. if arenesnlfonyl fluorides are used to trap the trifluoromethyl anion, trifluoromethyl sulfones are formed in high yield. Tris(diethyl-amino)(methylamino)phosphonium phenolate is also an effective catalyst for this reaction, but TASF(Me) is favored as it can achieve the quantitative transformation of ArS02F into aryl trifluoromethyl sulfones.115-117... 

A catalytic amount of CuCl was found to activate alkynyl(trimethyl)silanes in the palladium-catalyzed coupling reaction with aryl triflates (Eq. 7) [12]. The catalytic cycle is considered to involve the transfer of an alkynyl group from an alkynylsilane to Cu(I) and then to palladium(II). A sequential palladium-catalyzed reaction of trimethylsilylacetylene gives unsymmetrical diarylacet-ylenes (Eq. 8). 

Unsymmetrical diorganyltellurium dihalides are formed upon condensation of aryltellurium trichlorides with activated aromatic compounds and with ketones. The addition of the trichloride across carbon-carbon double bonds in alkenes, as well as the reaction with aryl(trimethyl)silane, hexaphenyldilead, and aryhnercury chlorides leads to the transfer of the aryl group to the tellurium atom. 

Cunico and Maity published another example of palladium-catalyzed CO-free carbonylation of aryl halides [121]. Depending on the substrate, 2 mol% of either Pd(PPh3)4 or Pd(P Bu3)2 was used to catalyze the reaction of heteroaryl and aryl bromides with A,A -dimethyl-carbamoyl(trimethyl)silane (Scheme 2.10). Tertiary amides were prepared in good yields by direct carbamoylation under their conditions. Remarkably, chlorobenzene, 1-chloro -methoxybenzene, and iodoben-zene gave the desired products in 74, 78, and 60 % yields, respectively. 

Reactions at acid centers to create 5 -2-(trimethylsilyl) ethanethiolesters are also common. Carboxylic 5-thiolesters are formed in high yield by the DCC/DMAP mediated coupling of 2-(trimethylsilyl)ethanethiol and carboxylic acids or by thiol substitution on a carboxylic acid chloride. 5 -2-(Tiimethylsilyl) ethyl p-toluenethiolsulfonate is formed by treating 2-(trimethyl-silyl)ethanethiol with tosyl bromide (eq 4). The product is a useful electrophile for carbon nucleophiles, allowing the introduction of the 2-(trimethylsilyl)ethylthio unit by an alternative mechanism. Independent of the thiol, aryl and alkyl 2-trimethylsilylethyl thioethers may be prepared by the radical addition of the appropriate arene- or aikanethiol to vinyl trimethyl-silane in a reaction comparable to that of eq l7 ... 

Cross-coupling Reactions. Trimethylsilylmethylmagnesium chloride reacts with organic halides (or pseudohalides), especially aryl and alkenyl halides, in the presence of transition metal catalysts. The reactions directly provide allylic or benzylic trimethyl-silanes of significant synthetic use. 

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