Ruthenium-Catalyzed Dehydrogenative Intermolecular O-H/Si-H/C-H Silylation: Synthesis of (<i>E</i>)-Alkenyl Silyl-Ether and Silyl-Ether Heterocycle

Abstract

Selective dehydrogenative silylation is one of the most valuable tools for synthesizing organosilicon compounds. In this study, a regio- and stereoselective ruthenium-catalyzed dehydrogenative intermolecular silylation was firstly developed to access (E)-alkenyl silyl-ether derivatives and silyl-ether heterocycles with good functional group tolerance. Furthermore, two pathways for RuH2(CO)(PPh3)3/NBE-catalyzed dehydrogenative intermolecular silylation of alcohols and alkenes as well as intermolecular silylation of naphthol derivatives were investigated with H2SiEt2 as the hydrosilane reagent.

Keywords

• ruthenium catalysis
• silylation
• C-H activation
• silyl-ether
• dehydrogenative coupling