Palladium-catalyzed intramolecular addition of trisilanes to carbon-carbon double bonds. Polyol synthesis by use of a disilanyl group as a hydroxyl equivalent

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/S0040-4039(96)02075-8

Intramolecular cyclization of trisilanyl ethers of homoallylalcohols proceeded regio- and stereoselectively with a 5-exo mode to give 3-(disilanylmethyl)-2-silatetrahydrofuran derivatives in good yields in the presence of a t-alkyl isonitrile-palladium ca