Palladium-catalyzed direct intermolecular silylation of remote unactivated C(sp3)-H bonds

Chem Commun (Camb). 2016 Nov 18;52(89):13151-13154. doi: 10.1039/c6cc07885k. Epub 2016 Oct 20.

Abstract

An efficient and convenient method has been developed to achieve direct silylation of unactivated remote primary or secondary C(sp3)-H bonds to form C-Si bonds with hexamethyldisilane (HMDS). This method highlights the emerging strategy to transform unactivated methyl or methylene into versatile functional groups in organic synthesis and provides a new method to construct functionalized C-Si bonds for synthetic chemistry.