Described herein
is the development of an unprecedented route to
bridged sila-N-heterocycles via B(C6F5)3-catalyzed cascade silylation of N-aryl piperidines with hydrosilanes. Mechanistic studies indicated
that an outer-sphere ionic path is operative to involve three sequential
catalytic steps having N-silyl piperidinium borohydride
as a resting species: (i) dehydrogenation of the piperidine ring,
(ii) β-selective hydrosilylation of a resultant enamine intermediate,
and (iii) intramolecular dehydrogenative sp2 C–H
silylation.
The formal hydroamination/hydroamidation utilizing metal hydride is an appealing synthetic tool for the construction of valuable nitrogen-containing compounds from unsaturated hydrocarbons. While significant advances have been made for the functionalizations of alkenes in this realm, the direct hydroamidation of alkynes remains rather limited due to the high feasibility of the key metal-alkenyl intermediate to choose other reaction pathways. Herein, we report a NiH-catalyzed strategy for the hydroamidation of alkynes with dioxazolones, which allows convenient access to synthetically useful secondary enamides in (E)-anti-Markovnikov or Markovnikov selectivity. The reaction is viable for both terminal and internal alkynes and is also tolerant with a range of subtle functional groups. With H 2 O found as an essential component for high catalyst turnovers, the involvement of inner-sphere nitrenoid transfer is proposed that outcompetes an undesired semireduction process, thus representing the first example to show the competence of Ni catalysis for metal-nitrenoid formation from dioxazolones.
Described herein is the selective reduction of sugars with hydrosilanes catalyzed by using Piers' borane [(C F ) BH] generated in situ. The hydrosilylative C-O bond cleavage of silyl-protected mono- and disaccharides in the presence of a (C F ) BH catalyst, generated in situ from (C F ) BOH, takes place with excellent chemo- and regioselectivities to provide a range of polyols. A study of the substituent effects of sugars on the catalytic activity and selectivity revealed that the steric environment around the anomeric carbon (C1) is crucial.
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