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An Electroreductive Approach to Radical Silylation via the Activation of Strong Si-Cl Bond
Lu, Lingxiang,Siu, Juno C.,Lai, Yihuan,Lin, Song
, p. 21272 - 21278 (2020)
The construction of C(sp3)-Si bonds is important in synthetic, medicinal, and materials chemistry. In this context, reactions mediated by silyl radicals have become increasingly attractive but methods for accessing these intermediates remain limited. We present a new strategy for silyl radical generation via electroreduction of readily available chlorosilanes. At highly biased potentials, electrochemistry grants access to silyl radicals through energetically uphill reductive cleavage of strong Si-Cl bonds. This strategy proved to be general in various alkene silylation reactions including disilylation, hydrosilylation, and allylic silylation under simple and transition-metal-free conditions.
DTBB-Catalysed dilithiation of styrene and its methyl-derivatives: Introduction of two electrophilic reagents
Yus, Miguel,Martínez, Pedro,Guijarro, David
, p. 10119 - 10124 (2007/10/03)
The reaction of styrene and some methyl-substituted styrenes 1 with lithium and a catalytic amount of 4,4′-di-tert-butylbiphenyl (DTBB) in the presence of several electrophiles [Me3SiCl, Me2CO, Et2CO, (CH2)5CO, Pr2CO], in THF, at temperatures ranging from -78 to 0°C, gave, after hydrolysis, products 2 resulting from addition of lithium to the olefinic double bond and successive trapping with the electrophilic reagent. When a carbonyl compound was used as electrophile, mixtures of the monoaddition-reduction compounds 3 and 4 were obtained as by-products, which could be easily separated from the diaddition products 2.
