Titanocene-catalyzed regioselective syn-hydrosilation of alkynes.
[reaction: see text] The titanium catalyst, which was generated in situ from titanocene dichloride and 2 equiv of butyllithium, was found to catalyze hydrosilation of a variety of alkynes with excellent regio- and syn-selectivity.
Takahashi
Tamotsu
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Catalysis Research Center and Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hokkaido University, and CREST, Science and Technology Corporation (JST), Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-0811, Japan. tamotsu@cat.hokudai.ac.jp
Bao
Fengyu
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Gao
Guohua
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Ogasawara
Masamichi
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