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Oxidative SI C bond cleavage of organotrifluorosilanes involving organic-group migration from hypercoordinate silicon to oxygen

K Sato, M Kira, H Sakurai

Index: Sato, Kazuhiko; Kira, Mitsuo; Sakurai, Hideki Tetrahedron Letters, 1989 , vol. 30, # 33 p. 4375 - 4378

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Abstract

Abstract Various organotrifluorosilanes react with trimethylamine-N-oxide without catalyst to give the corresponding alcohols in high yields under mild conditions. Stereospecific nature of the reaction is suggestive of the involvment of intramolecular 1, 2-organic-group migration from hypercoordinate silicon to oxygen.