A new and mild access to N-functionalized formamido and thioformamido compounds using hypervalent silicon hydrides

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/0040-4039(90)80131-5

Hydrosilylation of isocyanates and isothiocyanates is achieved easily using hypervalent difunctional organosilanes. Treatment off the adducts thus obtained through one pot addition of electrophiles gives highly functionalized formamides and N-acylthioform