18292-22-3Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Hydrogenation of chlorosilanes by NaBH4
Ito, Masaki,Itazaki, Masumi,Abe, Takashi,Nakazawa, Hiroshi
, p. 1434 - 1436 (2016/12/03)
Hydrogenation of chlorosilane was achieved in acetonitrile using NaBH4, a safe and easy-to-handle reagent. This reaction converted Si-Cl portion(s) in organosilanes into Si-H portion(s) without hydrogenation of cyano, chloro, and aldehyde groups on an alkyl substituent of the Si reagents. In addition, the Si-Cl/Si-H exchange reaction was applicable to dichlorodisilane without Si-Si bond cleavage.
Formal SiH4 chemistry using stable and easy-to-handle surrogates
Simonneau, Antoine,Oestreich, Martin
, p. 816 - 822 (2015/10/05)
Monosilane (SiH4) is far less well behaved than its carbon analogue methane (CH4). It is a colourless gas that is industrially relevant as a source of elemental silicon, but its pyrophoric and explosive nature makes its handling and use challenging. Consequently, synthetic applications of SiH4 in academic laboratories are extremely rare and methodologies based on SiH4 are underdeveloped. Safe and controlled alternatives to the substituent redistribution approaches of hydrosilanes are desirable and cyclohexa-2,5-dien-1-ylsilanes where the cyclohexa-1,4-diene units serve as placeholders for the hydrogen atoms have been identified as potent surrogates of SiH4. We disclose here that the commercially available Lewis acid tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane, B(C6F5)3, is able to promote the release of the Si-H bond catalytically while subsequently enabling the hydrosilylation of C-C multiple bonds in the same pot. The net reactions are transition-metal-free transfer hydrosilylations with SiH4 as a building block for the preparation of various hydrosilanes.
Hypervalent silicon hydrides: evidence for their intermediacy in the exchange reactions of di- and tri-hydrogenosilanes catalysed by hydrides (NaH, KH and LiAlH4)
Becker, B.,Corriu, R. J. P.,Guerin, C.,Henner, B. J. L.
, p. 147 - 154 (2007/10/02)
Di and tri-hydrogenosilanes, RR'SiH2 and RSiH3 (R=aryl, allyl or benzyl; R'=aryl or alkyl), readily undergo exchange reactions, involving silicon-carbon bonds and silicon-hydrogen bonds, in the presence of hydrides (LiAlH4, KH and NaH) as catalysts.These results are discussed in terms of five-coordinate silicon hydrides as intermediates in the reaction.
