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N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed hydrosilylation of styryl and propargylic alcohols with dihydrosilanes
Zhao, Qiwu,Curran, Dennis P.,Malacria, Max,Fensterbank, Louis,Goddard, Jean-Philippe,Lacote, Emmanuel
supporting information; experimental part, p. 9911 - 9914 (2011/10/05)
Reducing alkenes to tears: Addition of structurally diverse N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) to silicon allows the reduction of propargylic and styryl alcohols through an organocatalyzed silylation/direct hydride transfer tandem reaction (see scheme). Catalytic turnover is enabled by the switch to and from hypervalent silicon. This provides a new synthetic application of NHC-main group element complexes. Copyright
