A Triruthenium Carbonyl Cluster Bearing a Bridging Acenaphthylene Ligand: An Efficient Catalyst for Reduction of Esters, Carboxylic Acids, and Amides by Trialkylsilanes
The Journal of Organic Chemistry2002Vol. 67(14), pp. 4985–4988
Citations Over TimeTop 19% of 2002 papers
Abstract
An efficient reduction of carboxylic acids, esters, and amides with trialkylsilanes is accomplished using a triruthenium carbonyl cluster bearing a bridging acenaphthylene ligand, (mu(3),eta(2):eta(3):eta(5)-acenaphthylene)Ru(3)(CO)(7), as the catalyst. Preactivation of the catalyst by hydrosilanes accelerates the reactions. Sterically small trialkylsilanes are effective in these reactions. Reduction of carboxylic acids and amides efficiently produces the corresponding silyl ethers and amines, respectively. Reduction of esters gives a mixture of silyl and alkyl ethers, but can be controlled by changing the silanes and solvents.
Related Papers
- → Synthetic Doping of Acenaphthylene through BN/CC Isosterism and a Direct Comparison with BN-Acenaphthene(2022)13 cited
- → SPECTRAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF β- AND γ-FUNCTIONAL SILANES(1964)22 cited
- → High-yield electrosynthesis of furylchlorosilanes, silyl and silanylene furans(1998)5 cited
- → Manganese-catalyzed Dehydrogenative Silylation of Alkenes(2022)