A strategy for the synthesis of well-defined iron catalysts and application to regioselective diene hydrosilylation

Jessica Y Wu; Benjamin N Stanzl; Tobias Ritter

doi:10.1021/ja106853y

A strategy for the synthesis of well-defined iron catalysts and application to regioselective diene hydrosilylation

J Am Chem Soc. 2010 Sep 29;132(38):13214-6. doi: 10.1021/ja106853y.

Authors

Jessica Y Wu¹, Benjamin N Stanzl, Tobias Ritter

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.

PMID: 20809631
DOI: 10.1021/ja106853y

Abstract

We report the development of a well-defined Fe catalyst and its application to the regio- and stereoselective 1,4-hydrosilylation of 1,3-dienes. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first example of accessing a characterized low-valent Fe catalyst by controlled reductive elimination from a readily accessible Fe precatalyst.