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Highly efficient and chemoselective reductive bis-silylation of quinones by silyltellurides

S Yamago, H Miyazoe, K Iida, J Yoshida

Index: Yamago, Shigeru; Miyazoe, Hiroshi; Iida, Kazunori; Yoshida, Jun-Ichi Organic Letters, 2000 , vol. 2, # 23 p. 3671 - 3673

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Abstract

Silyltellurides serve as new silicon-based chemoselective reducing agents and reduce quinones to the corresponding bis-silylated hydroquinones. The reaction proceeds under ambient thermal conditions without the need of any additional promoters or catalysts and gives the products in excellent yields. Several control experiments suggest that the reaction is initiated by a single electron transfer from silyltellurides to quinones.

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