Site- and Regioselective Silaborative C–C Cleavage of 1-Alkyl-2-Methylenecyclopropanes Using a Platinum Catalyst with a Sterically Demanding Silylboronic Ester
presence of a phosphine-free platinum catalyst, giving 3-substituted 2-boryl-4-silyl-1-butenes throughselectivecleavage of the less hindered proximalC–Cbond of the cyclopropane ring. The steric bulk of the silyl group of the silylboronic esters was critical for efficient formation of the silaboration products, and i-PrPh2Si–B(pin) was developed as a silylboronic ester of choice.
Kinetic resolution of racemic 1-alkyl-2-methylenecyclopropanes via silaborative C-C cleavage was efficiently catalyzed by a palladium complex bearing a chiral phosphoramidite, affording 2-boryl-3-silylmethyl-1-alkenes as major products with up to 92% ee. Enantioenrichment through parallel kinetic resolution, where the slower reacting enantiomer was converted to the constitutional isomer of the major product, may be involved as the crucial stereodiscriminating step.