Metal-Free & Mild
Uses cheap halide salts as both mediator and electrolyte to convert hydrosilanes into silanols or alkoxysilanes at room temperature, replacing transition-metal catalysis.
Fu, Zhengjiang · Fei, Xiao · Yin, Jian · Tong, Fei · Guo, Shengmei · Cai, Hu
Green Chemistry 2024
moderate to good yields
good functional group tolerance
under ambient conditions
successful scale-up experiments