The enzymatic kinetic resolution of alpha-hydroxysilanes where the silicon bears a variety of substituents has been explored. Reactions were performed on various alpha-hydroxysilanes with several commercially available enzymes, solvents, acetylation reagents, and temperatures. The resulting optically active alpha-hydroxysilanes and their corresponding acetates were obtained in varying yields and ees. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Thermal rearrangements of .alpha.-(acyloxy)silanes: formation of chiral precursors and migratory preference of silicon-based groups
作者:John D. Buynak、J. Byron Strickland、Grady W. Lamb、Dipti Khasnis、Seema Modi、Delena Williams、Hongming Zhang
DOI:10.1021/jo00025a024
日期:1991.12
The asymmetric reduction of acylsilanes to chiral alpha-hydroxysilanes and the thermal rearrangement of the corresponding chiral alpha-acetoxysilanes was explored. IpcBCl reduces many acylsilanes in > 95% ee. The rate of the thermal rearrangement of the alpha-acetoxysilanes was dependent upon the substituents at both silicon and carbon. Evidence is presented to indicate there is electron deficiency at the alpha-carbon in the transition state. Migratory aptitudes follow those expected on the basis of the migrating group assuming an apical migratory group at a pentacoordinate silicon. A previously unreported hydrolytic transformation of a proposed acylsilyl hydride to a stable 1-sila-1,2-diol was observed.