Triethylborane Induced Perfluoroalkylation of Silyl Enol Ethers and Ketene Silyl Acetals with Perfluoroalkyl Iodides

Gallium tribromide catalyzed coupling reaction of alkenyl ethers with ketene silyl acetals.

Carbogallation of alkynes using gallium tribromide and silyl ketene acetals and synthetic application to cross-coupling with aryl iodides.

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 ...

Enantioselective acylation of silyl ketene acetals through fluoride anion-binding catalysis.

A highly enantioselective acylation of silyl ketene acetals with acyl fluorides has been developed to generate useful α,α-disubstituted butyrolactone products. This transformation is promoted by a new thiourea catalyst and 4-pyrrolidinopyridine and represents the first example of enantioselective thiourea anion-binding catalysis with fluoride.

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.