Superacid catalysis of the addition of allysilanes to carbonyl compounds
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 17,p. 1176-1178
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39900001176
Abstract
The superacid TfOH2+B(OTf)4-(Tf = CF3SO2) was found to catalyse the addition of trialkylallylsilanes to aldehydes and a ketone (the Sakurai reaction) at levels of ca. 0.5 mol%; the reactions were clean, high-yielding, and regioselective with respect to allylic inversion.Keywords
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