Si-C bond activation in the reaction of first generation Grubbs' catalyst with alkynylsilanes - formation of [Cl(2){P(C(6)H(11))(3)}(2)Ru(=CHCH=CHPh)] anddisiloxanes

Beata Powała; Helmut Fischer; Cezary Pietraszuk

doi:10.1039/b924945c

Si-C bond activation in the reaction of first generation Grubbs' catalyst with alkynylsilanes - formation of [Cl(2){P(C(6)H(11))(3)}(2)Ru(=CHCH=CHPh)] anddisiloxanes

Dalton Trans. 2010 Feb 28;39(8):1923-5. doi: 10.1039/b924945c. Epub 2010 Jan 5.

Authors

Beata Powała¹, Helmut Fischer, Cezary Pietraszuk

Affiliation

¹ Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, 60-780, Poznań, Poland. pietrasz@amu.edu.pl.

PMID: 20148204
DOI: 10.1039/b924945c

Abstract

The first generation Grubbs catalyst [Cl(2){P(C(6)H(11))(3)}(2)Ru=C(H)Ph] reacts efficiently with alkynylsilanes in the presence of water to give the styryl carbene complex [Cl(2){P(C(6)H(11))}(2) Ru=C(CH=CHPh)H] and disiloxane.