Organometallics

Iron-catalyzed chlorination of silanes

R Savela, W Zawartka, R Leino

Index: Savela, Risto; Zawartka, Wojciech; Leino, Reko Organometallics, 2012 , vol. 31, # 8 p. 3199 - 3206

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Abstract

A simple and highly efficient iron-catalyzed method for the chlorination of silanes has been developed. By use of 0.5–2% of the Fe (III)-based catalyst FeCl3 or Fe (acac) 3 in the presence of 1–1.5 equiv of acetyl chloride as the chlorine donor, a large number of silanes, alkoxysilanes, and silanols were converted to the corresponding chlorosilanes in 50–93% yields. In contrast to earlier reported methods often suffering from expensive catalysts or ...