Selective dehydrogenative coupling of di-and trihydrosilanes with alcohols catalyzed by PdCl2 or NiCl2 afforded alkoxyhydro-and dialkoxyhydrosilanes in good yield. Further treatment of the resulting alkoxyhydrosilanes with carbon tetrachloride or allyl bromide in the presence of the same catalyst led to the formation of alkoxychloro-and alkoxybromosilanes, respectively. Similar reactions of dialkoxyhydrosilanes with carbon tetrachloride afforded ...
[Gillard, John W.; Fortin, Rejean; Morton, Howard E.; Yoakim, Christiane; Quesnelle, Claude A.; at al. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 1988 , vol. 53, # 11 p. 2602 - 2608]