Transition-metal-catalyzed additions of silicon− silicon and silicon− heteroatom bonds to unsaturated organic molecules

M Suginome, Y Ito - Chemical Reviews, 2000 - ACS Publications
With the increasing demand for organosilicon compounds in organic synthesis as well as
material sciences, development of new methodologies that offer efficient entries into a …

Ni-catalyzed ligand-controlled divergent and selective synthesis

Y Ke, W Li, W Liu, W Kong - Science China Chemistry, 2023 - Springer
Scaffold diversity is a key feature of a compound library and plays a pivotal role in its
success in biological screening. Therefore, it is highly desirable to develop efficient …

Recent advances in transition-metal-catalyzed synthetic transformations of organosilicon reagents

T Komiyama, Y Minami, T Hiyama - ACS Catalysis, 2017 - ACS Publications
Organosilicon compounds act as a nucleophile upon activation by an appropriate base and
behave in a manner similar to main-group organometallic reagents. In the last decades …

Nickel (0)-catalyzed divergent reactions of silacyclobutanes with internal alkynes

XC Wang, B Li, CW Ju, D Zhao - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Transition metal-catalyzed reactions of silacyclobutanes with a variety of π units have
attracted much attention and become one of the most straightforward and efficient …

Nickel (0)‐Catalyzed Asymmetric Ring Expansion Toward Enantioenriched Silicon‐Stereogenic Benzosiloles

J Zhang, N Yan, CW Ju, D Zhao - … Chemie International Edition, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The development of a straightforward strategy to obtain enantioenriched silicon‐stereogenic
benzosiloles remains a challenging yet appealing synthesis venture due to their potential …

Enantioselective synthesis of spirosilabicyclohexenes by asymmetric dual ring expansion of spirosilabicyclobutane with alkynes

H Chen, J Peng, Q Pang, H Du, L Huang… - Angewandte …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Silaspiranes have attracted particular attention due to their chiral spiro‐silicon center, which
serves as an ideal carbon isostere and can endow spiro‐analogs with distinct properties …

Controllable Si− C bond activation enables stereocontrol in the palladium‐catalyzed [4+ 2] annulation of cyclopropenes with benzosilacyclobutanes

XB Wang, ZJ Zheng, JL Xie, XW Gu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
A novel and unusual palladium‐catalyzed [4+ 2] annulation of cyclopropenes with
benzosilacyclobutanes is reported. This reaction occurred through chemoselective Si− C …

Ring Expansion of Silacyclobutanes with Allenoates to Selectively Construct 2- or 3-(E)-Enoate-Substituted Silacyclohexenes

X Tang, Y Zhang, Y Tang, Y Li, J Zhou, D Wang… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Silacycle is one of the most essential core frameworks in silicon-containing functional
molecules. However, the structural diversity of silacycles has been largely limited due to the …

3-Silaazetidine: an unexplored yet versatile organosilane species for ring expansion toward silaazacycles

W Wang, S Zhou, L Li, Y He, X Dong… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Small-ring silacycles are important organosilane species in main-group chemistry and have
found numerous applications in organic synthesis. 3-Silaazetidine, a unique small silacycle …

Palladium-catalyzed intermolecular exchange between C–C and C–Si σ-bonds

S Okumura, F Sun, N Ishida… - Journal of the American …, 2017 - ACS Publications
A palladium–isocyanide complex opens the two four-membered rings of
benzocyclobutenone and silacyclobutane to merge them into an eight-membered ring …