Highly stereoselective syntheses of alkenylsilanes and germanes utilizing cyclobutyl ketones

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4020(97)00541-3

(E)-Alkenylsilanes were synthesized with high stereoselectivity by the diastereoselective addition of the dimethylphenylsilyllithium to the trans-2-phenylthiocyclobutyl ketones and the Lewis acid-promoted promoted stereospecific ring opening reactions of the resulting cyclobutanemethanol derivatives. (E)-1,5-Disubstituted 1,5-dienylsilanes and germanes were also produced stereoselectively by the similar zinc salt-catalyzed ring opening reaction of α-dimethylphenylsilyl- or α-triethylgermyl-1-[2-(trimethylsilylmethyl)cyclobutane]methanol derivatives.