A strategy for the synthesis of well-defined iron catalysts and application to regioselective diene hydrosilylation.
We report the development of a well-defined Fe catalyst and its application to the regio- and stereoselective 1,4-hydrosilylation of 1,3-dienes. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first example of accessing a characterized low-valent Fe catalyst by controlled reductive elimination from a readily accessible Fe precatalyst.
Wu
Jessica Y
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Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.
Stanzl
Benjamin N
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Ritter
Tobias
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