Communications Chemistry (May 2021)

Selective hydrosilylation of allyl chloride with trichlorosilane

  • Koya Inomata,
  • Yuki Naganawa,
  • Zhi An Wang,
  • Kei Sakamoto,
  • Kazuhiro Matsumoto,
  • Kazuhiko Sato,
  • Yumiko Nakajima

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-021-00502-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Hydrosilylation of allyl chloride with trichlorosilane is industrially important but often proceeds unselectively. Here a Rh(I) catalyst which achieves 99% selectivity on gram scale is described, based on bidentate phosphine ligands.