Vinylsilanes reactions

Vinylsilanes. Reaction of either 1- or 3-trimethylsilylallyl acetate (1 or 2) with several nucleophiles in the presence-of Pd(0) affords vinylsilanes.15 Examples ... 

Catalytic C-H bond transformation is a very attractive research subject in organic and organometallic chemistry [1]. There are several procedures for C-H bond transformation. One is conversion of C-H bonds to C-Si bonds, i.e. the direct silylation of C-H bonds. Three procedures have been developed for silylation of C-H bonds - use of hydrosilanes (reaction 1 in Scheme 1), disilanes (reaction 2 in Scheme 1), and vinylsilanes (reaction 3 in Scheme 1) as silylating reagents. 

It is perhaps more simple to note that both the vinylsilane reaction 6.504 and the allylsilane reaction 6.507 are showing the normal pattern of stereochemistry for their reactions with electrophiles a preference for retention of configuration in the double bond geometry for a vinylsilane, and anti for an allylsilane, where anti refers to the side of the double bond to which the new bond is formed relative to the side on which the silyl group resides. In the product 6.509, the new C—C bond has formed to the lower surface of the left-hand double bond, while the silyl group was conjugated to the top surface in the allylsilane 6.508. 

This scheme may be used to rationalise the stereochemistry of a large number of vinylsilane reactions. 

The organolithium reagent (1) also reacts with a wide variety of other electrophiles, including silyl chlorides to provide bis(silyl)methane derivatives, and nitriles to provide -sUyl amines after in situ reduction of the intermediate imine derivative. a-Silyl epoxides are opened to provide the substituted vinylsilane. Reaction of (1) with arenesulfonyl fluorides provides a-silyl sulfones, key intermediates for the preparation of vinyl sulfones. Reaction of the lithium reagent (1) with alu-... 

A variable pressure oil pump was used in this distillation. Approximately 10 g of a volatile component, consisting mostly of hexamethyl-disiloxane, was obtained at room temperature (15 (in) before the forerun. The forerun contained the desired product and mineral oil from the n-butyllithium solution. The pot residue was about 5 g. The submitters find the disilyl compound thus obtained is contaminated with a trace amount of mineral oil and 4-6% of a vinylsilane, probably 2-methyl-l-trimethylsiloxy-3-trimethylsilyl-2-propene. This impurity becomes quite significant if the reaction medium is less polar than the one described (e.g., too much hexane from n-butyllithium is allowed to remain behind). The spectral properties of the desired product... 

The ability to promote /S elimination and the electron-donor capacity of the /3-metalloid substituents can be exploited in a very useful way in synthetic chemistry. Vinylstannanes and vinylsilanes react readily with electrophiles. The resulting intermediates then undergo elimination of the stannyl or silyl substituent, so that the net effect is replacement of the stannyl or silyl group by the electrophile. An example is the replacement of a trimethylsilyl substituent by an acetyl group by reaction with acetyl chloride. 

In Scheme 10, HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor 92 was synthesized via a Suzuki coupling approach. Hiyama s group also carried out a Hiyama coupling to make the same compound (93TL8263). Vinylsilane 119 was prepared by platinum-catalyzed reaction from terminal alkyne 89. 

For the preparation of divinyl ketones, as required for the Nazarov reaction, various synthetic routes have been developed. A large variety of substituted divinyl ketones, including vinylsilane derivatives, can thus be prepared. The Nazarov cyclization, and especially the vinylsilane variant, has found application for the synthesis of complex cyclopentanoids. 

Different substrate geometries can even result in alternate reaction pathways operating. The reactions between trans-a, (3-epoxytrimethylsilane 115 and organo-metals (metal = Li, Ce, or La) give predominantly trans-alkene 116 in high yields (Scheme 5.25) [38]. In contrast, treatment of cis-115 with some of the same organo-metals produces (Z)-vinylsilanes. The use of a bulkier substituent on silicon (e. g.,... 

The Ireland-Claisen reaction of ( )-vinylsilanes has been applied to the stereoselective synthesis of syn- and c/nti-2-substituted 3-silyl alkcnoic acids. a R-2-Alkyl-3-silyl acids are prepared by rearrangement of ( )-silyl ketene acetals which are generated in situ from the kinetically formed (Z)-enolate of the corresponding propionate ester40. Chelation directs the stereochemistry of enolization of heteroelement-substituted acetates in such a way that the syn-diastereomers are invariably formed on rearrangement403. 

There are, however, two disadvantages associated with use of the phenyldimethylsilyl group. Based on the reaction stoichiometry, for each equivalent of substrate, one silyl group is unused, and after work-up this appears as a relatively involatile by-product. Secondly, after synthetic use of such vinylsilanes involving desilylation, a similar problem of by-product formation arises. One solution to these problems lies in the use of the tri-methylsilyl group (Chapter 8), since the by-product, hexamethyldisiloxane, is volatile and normally disappears on work-up. 

Vinylsilanes (Chapter 3) can be readily converted into a/3-epoxysilanes, normally by treatment with mcpba (/). Alternatively, a-chloro-a-lithio-a-trimethylsilanes react efficiently with aldehydes and ketones in a manner reminiscent of the Darzens reaction (2). 

Allylsilanes are somewhat more reactive than vinylsilanes in such reactions considering the reaction pathway followed by each substrate on... 

The electophilic substitution of allylsilanes and vinylsilanes I, Fleming, J. Dunogues and R. Smithers, Organic Reactions 37, Chapter 2 (1990). 

High levels of diastereocontrol in an ISOC reaction were induced by a stereogenic carbon center that bears a Si substituent (Scheme 23) [55]. For instance, conversion of nitro alkenes (e.g., 199) to j3-siloxyketones (e.g., 203) has been accomplished via a key ISOC reaction-reduction sequence with complete control of 1,5-relative stereochemistry. The generality of the ISOC reaction of a silyl nitronate with a vinylsilane was demonstrated with seven other examples. Corresponding INOC reaction proceeded with lower stereoselectivity. 

Hydroalumination of terminal alkenes using EtjAl as the hydride source must be carried out with titanium catalysts [24], since zirconium compounds lead to the formation of alumacyclopentanes [60, 61] (Scheme 2-11) and carbometallated products [62]. Suitable substrates for hydroalumination include styrene, allylnaphthalene and vinylsilanes. Only one of the ethyl groups in EtjAl takes part in these reactions, allowing the synthesis of diethylalkylalanes, which are difficult to obtain by other methods. 

The reaction of acetyl nitrate with cyclic vinylsilanes gives 1-nitrocycloalkenes or 1,1-dinitro 2-nitrated cycloalkanes, depending on the ring size, as shown in Eqs. 2.37 and 2.38.73... 

Summary The reaction of vinylsilanes with lithium metal is strongly dependent on the solvent and on substituents in the /3 position. 

Another method of activation we considered was the use of a secondary amine to generate a more electrophilic iminium species, examples of which have been used in vinylsilane-terminated cyclization reactions, particularly by Overman and co-workers [Eq. (4.8)] [51]. In our case, the unsaturated iminium ion would be activated for... 

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