Palladium-catalyzed disilylation of o-quinodimethanes: synthesis of 9- and 10-membered disilacarbocycles

Hiroto Yoshida; Saori Nakano; Masashi Mukae; Joji Ohshita

doi:10.1021/ol801788t

Palladium-catalyzed disilylation of o-quinodimethanes: synthesis of 9- and 10-membered disilacarbocycles

Org Lett. 2008 Oct 2;10(19):4319-22. doi: 10.1021/ol801788t. Epub 2008 Sep 5.

Authors

Hiroto Yoshida¹, Saori Nakano, Masashi Mukae, Joji Ohshita

Affiliation

¹ Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima 739-8527, Japan. yhiroto@hiroshima-u.ac.jp

PMID: 18771266
DOI: 10.1021/ol801788t

Abstract

o-Quinodimethanes are efficiently inserted into a silicon-silicon bond of cyclic disilanes in the presence of a palladium-diphenyl-2-pyridylphosphine catalyst, giving 9- and 10-membered disilacarbocycles, that is, benzodisilonine and benzodisilecine.