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Palladium-catalyzed cyclopropanation of alkenyl silanes by diazoalkanes: Evidence for a Pd0 mechanism
Berthon-Gelloz, Guillaume,Marchant, Melanie,Straub, Bernd F.,Marko, Istvan E.
body text, p. 2923 - 2931 (2009/12/01)
Alkenyl silanes are efficiently converted to the corresponding silyl cyclopropanes in the presence of a slight excess of diazomethane (2-4 equiv) and a low loading of Pd(OAc)2 (-3 mol%, which corresponds to a turnover frequency of 40000 h-1. Competition experiments revealed that vinyl silanes can be selectively cyclopropanated in the presence of an aliphatic terminal alkene and styrene. The complex [Pd 20(DVTMS)3] (38, DVTMS = divinyltetramethyldisiloxane) proved to be an exceptionally active catalyst for the cyclopropanation reaction, giving complete conversion at -35 °C in 1 min. Intermolecular and intramolecular competition experiments with DVTMS (36), both with Pd(OAc)2 and 38, provided strong evidence for a Pd 0(alkenyl silane)3 resting state. Detailed density functional calculations on the reaction pathways for the cyclopropanation of trimethylvinylsilane and DVTMS by diazomethane with Pd0 corroborated the experimental observations.