Diorganotelluride-catalyzed oxidation of silanes to silanols under atmospheric oxygen

Yasunori Okada; Makoto Oba; Atsushi Arai; Kazuhito Tanaka; Kozaburo Nishiyama; Wataru Ando

doi:10.1021/ic9022745

Diorganotelluride-catalyzed oxidation of silanes to silanols under atmospheric oxygen

Inorg Chem. 2010 Jan 18;49(2):383-5. doi: 10.1021/ic9022745.

Authors

Yasunori Okada¹, Makoto Oba, Atsushi Arai, Kazuhito Tanaka, Kozaburo Nishiyama, Wataru Ando

Affiliation

¹ Department of Materials Chemistry, Tokai University, 317 Nishino, Numazu, Shizuoka 410-0395, Japan.

PMID: 20014768
DOI: 10.1021/ic9022745

Abstract

Diorganotellurides efficiently catalyze the aerobic oxidation of organosilanes under photosensitized conditions to afford the corresponding silanols in excellent yield.