Chemical Communications

Ruthenium catalyzed selective hydrosilylation of aldehydes

B Chatterjee, C Gunanathan

Index: Chatterjee, Basujit; Gunanathan, Chidambaram Chemical Communications, 2014 , vol. 50, # 7 p. 888 - 890

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Abstract

A chemoselective hydrosilylation method for aldehydes is developed using a ruthenium catalyst [(Ru (p-cymene) Cl2) 2] and triethylsilane; a mono hydride bridged dinuclear complex [{(η6-p-cymene) RuCl} 2 (μ-H-μ-Cl)] and a Ru (IV) mononuclear dihydride complex [(η6-p-cymene) Ru (H) 2 (SiEt3) 2] are identified as potential intermediates in the reaction and the proposed catalytic cycle involves a 1, 3-hydride migration.