Chemical Communications,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
60(96), P. 14204 - 14207
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
Nickel-catalyzed
stereospecific
reductive
cross-coupling
of
vinyl
chlorosilanes
with
chiral
biaryl
electrophiles
for
the
synthesis
axially
organosilanes.
Chemical Society Reviews,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
53(17), P. 8546 - 8562
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
Silicon-stereogenic
chiral
organosilanes
have
found
increasing
applications
in
synthetic
chemistry,
medicinal
and
materials
science.
In
this
context,
various
asymmetric
catalytic
methods
been
established
for
the
diverse
synthesis
of
silicon-stereogenic
silanes.
particular,
organocatalysis
is
emerging
as
an
important
complementary
tool
enantioselective
construction
silicon-stereocenters,
along
with
rapid
development
chiral-metal
catalyzed
protocols.
Its
advent
provides
a
powerful
platform
to
achieve
functionalized
structural
diversity,
should
lead
great
organosilicon
chemistry.
Tutorial
Review,
we
highlight
these
latest
achievements
from
two
aspects:
desymmetrizations
prochiral
tetraorganosilanes
dynamic
kinetic
transformations
racemic
by
employing
five
organocatalytic
activation
modes.
The
advantages,
limitations
value
each
protocol,
well
opportunities
still
open
further
exploration,
are
also
discussed.
Angewandte Chemie International Edition,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
63(48)
Published: Aug. 14, 2024
Silacycles
have
exhibited
significant
potential
for
application
in
the
fields
of
medicinal
chemistry,
agrochemistry,
and
materials
science.
Accordingly,
development
effective
methods
synthesizing
these
compounds
has
attracted
increasing
attention.
Here,
we
report
an
efficient
Cu-catalyzed
enantioselective
hydrosilylation
arylmethylenecyclopropanes
with
hydrosilanes,
that
allows
rapid
assembly
various
enantioenriched
carbon-
silicon-stereogenic
silacyclopentanes
good
yields
excellent
enantioselectivities
diastereoselectivities
under
mild
conditions.
Further
stereospecific
transformation
Si-H
bond
on
chiral
silicon
center
expands
diversity
C-
Si-stereogenic
silacyclopentanes.
Nature Communications,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
16(1)
Published: Jan. 3, 2025
This
study
presents
a
copper-catalyzed,
substrate-controlled
regio-
and
enantioselective
intermolecular
hydrosilylation
method
capable
of
accommodating
broad
scope
alkenes
prochiral
silanes.
The
approach
offers
an
efficient
versatile
pathway
to
generate
enantioenriched
linear
branched
alkyl-substituted
Si-stereogenic
Key
features
this
reaction
include
mild
conditions,
simple
catalytic
systems,
compatibility
with
diverse
substrates,
high
yields
enantioselectivities.
While
methods
create
chiral
carbon
centers
stereochemically
defined
silicon
have
been
developed,
the
ability
both
simultaneously
would
be
value.
Here
authors
present
substratecontrolled
Organic Letters,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: April 25, 2025
An
efficient
and
straightforward
cobalt-catalyzed
regioselective
intramolecular
hydrosilylation
of
olefins
has
been
developed.
Regioselectivity
is
controlled
by
the
choice
ligands
substrates,
which
operate
through
two
distinct
mechanisms.
This
method
successfully
applied
to
both
terminal
internal
alkenes
phenyl
alkyl
tethers
between
silane
alkene,
demonstrating
its
versatility
across
a
broad
range
substrates.
Organic Letters,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: April 7, 2025
Herein,
we
report
a
catalytic
reductive
[4+1]
sila-cycloaddition
between
functionalized
1,3-dienes
and
chemical
feedstock
di-,
tri-,
tetrachlorosilane(s),
enabled
by
cost-effective
pyridine-diimine-nickel
complex,
providing
practical
method
to
prepare
diverse
silacyclopent-3-enes
in
up
92%
yield,
including
bridged
spiro
silacarbocycles.
This
reaction
demonstrates
broad
substrate
compatibility,
with
different
substitution
patterns
more
accessible
E/Z
isomeric
mixture.
Notably,
trichlorosilanes
undergo
tandem
sila-cycloadditions/nucleophilic
substitutions,
while
tetrachlorosilane
successfully
performs
double
sila-cycloadditions
2
equiv
of
directly
construct
Research Square (Research Square),
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: May 7, 2025
Abstract
The
first
highly
efficient
kinetic
resolution
(KR)
of
racemic
amino
acids
with
L-pyroglutaminol
as
an
esterification
reagent
was
reported
through
a
novel
phosphine
oxide
organocatalyst
catalyzed
under
mild
conditions,
which
provides
wide
range
chiral
esters
and
recovered
excellent
stereoselectivities
(s
>
1057).
catalyst
demonstrated
stereocontrol
catalytic
activity,
presumably
benefited
from
intimate
double
H-bonding
interaction
between
the
pyroglutaminol
core
catalyst.
Chiral
find
applications
versatile
building
blocks
in
synthesis
functional
molecules,
source
information
asymmetric
tools
to
expand
explore
function
native
biological
machinery.1–8
Therefore,
represent
class
valuable
indispensable
compounds
whose
stereoselective
is
major
objective
within
synthetic
chemists
biologists.9–10
To
best
our
knowledge,
array
effective
strategies
for
construction
have
been
developed,
such
hydrogenation
nucleophilic
addition
imines11–18,
enantioselective
carbene
insertion
into
N-H
bonds
amines
or
amides19–23,
photobiocatalytic
cross-coupling24–27,
stereocontrolled
1,3-nitrogen
migration
carboxylic
acids28.
However,
identifying
specific
reaction
not
always
easy
task.
An
alternative
well-established
strategy
relies
on
KR
mixture
(Fig.
1a).29–31
stands
out
one
most
practical
straightforward
obtaining
enantioenriched
molecules
recovering
starting
materials,
effectively
allowing
access
both
enantiomers
single
enantiomer
Numerous
processes
developed
that
reliably
deliver
enantiopure
compounds,
including
alcohols32–36,
monohydrosilanes37,
organoperoxides38,
alkynes39–40,
sulfonyl
ketones41,
amines42,
imines43,
sulfoximines44–45,
aldehydes46,
phosphindane
oxides47–48,
heterocyclic
compounds49–52.
Despite
this
significant
progress
field,
remains
challenging
task
has
rarely
explored.53–57
Nature Communications,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
16(1)
Published: May 9, 2025
Highly
regio-,
diastereo-
and
enantioselective
iron-catalyzed
sequential
hydrosilylation
of
o-alk-n-enyl-phenyl
silanes
with
alkynes
is
reported
for
various
5-,
6-,
7-membered
benzosilacycles
in
60-94%
yields
up
to
95:5
rr,
dr,
99%
ee.
Chiral
fully
carbon-substituted
silicon-stereogenic
could
also
be
obtained
via
triple
reactions.
The
unique
electronic
effect
ligands
observed
while
adjusting
the
regioselectivity
enantioselectivity
A
possible
mechanism
has
been
proposed
by
variable
time
normalization
analysis
(VTNA)
H/D
exchange
experiment.
Angewandte Chemie,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
136(48)
Published: Aug. 14, 2024
Abstract
Silacycles
have
exhibited
significant
potential
for
application
in
the
fields
of
medicinal
chemistry,
agrochemistry,
and
materials
science.
Accordingly,
development
effective
methods
synthesizing
these
compounds
has
attracted
increasing
attention.
Here,
we
report
an
efficient
Cu‐catalyzed
enantioselective
hydrosilylation
arylmethylenecyclopropanes
with
hydrosilanes,
that
allows
rapid
assembly
various
enantioenriched
carbon‐
silicon‐stereogenic
silacyclopentanes
good
yields
excellent
enantioselectivities
diastereoselectivities
under
mild
conditions.
Further
stereospecific
transformation
Si−H
bond
on
chiral
silicon
center
expands
diversity
C‐
Si‐stereogenic
silacyclopentanes.