Ruthenium-catalyzed ring-closing reaction of α, ω-bis (vinylsilyl) compounds via a silyl transfer mechanism

…, Y Takaguchi, Y Wakatsuki, T Umemiya…

Index: Mise, Takaya; Takaguchi, Yutaka; Umemiya, Takeshi; Shimizu, Shoichi; Wakatsuki, Yasuo Chemical Communications, 1998 , # 6 p. 699 - 700

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Abstract

Compounds having a vinyldimethylsilyl group at both terminals have been successfully cyclized by ruthenium hydride catalysts to give selectively disilacycles of various ring sizes via a metathetical reaction, ie ethene elimination from the two terminal vinyl groups, not involving metallocarbene–metallacyclobutane type intermediates.