Ene-diamido lanthanum complex

Selective hydrosilylation

An ene-diamido lanthanum complex catalyst that enables highly selective hydrosilylation of methylenecyclopropanes to give silacyclopentanes or homoallylsilanes.

Xiaoming, Xu · Ailin, Gao · Xu, Xiufang · Li, Jianfeng · Cui, Chunming

Journal of the American Chemical Society 2024

Advantages

Selective formation of silacyclopentanes

Selective formation of (E)-homoallylsilanes

Catalytic cascade inter-/intramolecular hydrosilylation mechanism