Tetrahedron letters

Preparation of allylsilanes via cross-metathesis

WE Crowe, DR Goldberg, ZJ Zhang

Index: Crowe, William E.; Goldberg, Daniel R.; Zhang, Zhijia J. Tetrahedron Letters, 1996 , vol. 37, # 13 p. 2117 - 2120

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Abstract

Allylsilanes are prepared by simple metathetical cross-coupling of terminal olefins with allyltrimethylsilane. Allytrimethylsilane coupling with π-substituted terminal olefins (styrenes, 1-phenyl-1, 3-butadiene, and acrylonitrile) proceeds in excellent yield and very high selectivity. Lower, but still useful, selectivities are observed for allyltrimethylsilane/alkyl olefin cross-metathesis reactions.