Metal‐Free Hydrosilylation of Ketenes with Silicon Electrophiles: Access to Fully Substituted Aldehyde‐Derived Silyl Enol Ethers

Formal (3+3) cycloaddition of silyl enol ethers catalyzed by trifric imide: domino Michael addition-claisen condensation accompanied with isomerization of silyl enol ethers.

We describe here a Tf₂NH-catalyzed formal (3+3) cycloaddition of silyl enol ethers with acrylates as a new domino reaction. In the domino sequence, the catalyst activates Michael addition, deprotonation of the resulting silyloxonium cation and intramolecular Claisen condensation. It was found that reaction modes significantly depend on the reaction temperature. We also examined the mechanistic ...

Synthesis of 2-substituted 7-hydroxybenzofuran-4-carboxylates via addition of silyl enol ethers to o-benzoquinone esters.

Mukaiyama Michael addition of silyl enol ethers 13 to the 1,2-quinone-4-carboxylate 6 (formed in situ by oxidation of the catechol ester 8) afforded the 2-subsituted 7-hydroxybenzofuran-4-carboxylates 14 in fair to good yields. Alkyl and aryl systems work well, but highly electron-rich silyl enol ethers could not be used because of competing oxidation.

Nickel-Catalyzed Reductive Conjugate Addition of Primary Alkyl Bromides to Enones To Form Silyl Enol Ethers

Conjugate addition of organometallic reagents to enones to form silyl enol ether products is a versatile method to difunctionalize activated olefins, but the organometallic reagents required can be limiting. The reductive cross-electrophile coupling of unhindered primary alkyl bromides with enones and chlorosilanes to form silyl enol ether products is catalyzed by a nickel-complexed ortho-bromi...

An efficient catalyst-free Mukaiyama-aldol reaction of fluorinated enol silyl ethers with tryptanthrin.

We report an efficient Mukaiyama-aldol reaction of tryptanthrin with fluorinated enol silyl ethers, which is carried out in methanol without the use of any catalyst. This method is applied to the total synthesis of the difluoro analogues of the natural product Phaitanthrin B.

Zirconocene-catalyzed reactions of alkenyl-substituted enol ethers.