Enantioselective Intermolecular C-H Silylation of Heteroarenes for the Synthesis of Acyclic Si-Stereogenic Silanes.

Intermolecular C-H silylation for the synthesis of acyclic silanes bearing a silicon-stereogenic center in one enantiomeric form remains unknown to date. Herein, we report the first enantioselective intermolecular C-H silylation of heteroarenes for the synthesis of acyclic silicon-stereogenic heteroarylsilanes. This process undergoes a rhodium-catalyzed direct intermolecular dehydrogenative Si-H/C-H cross-coupling, giving access to a variety of acyclic heteroarylated silicon-stereogenic monohydrosilanes, including bis-Si-stereogenic silanes, in decent yields with excellent chemo-, regio-, and stereo-control, which significantly enlarge the chemical space of the optically active silicon-stereogenic monohydrosilanes.

Catalytic Enantioselective Dehydrogenative Si-O Coupling to Access Chiroptical Silicon-Stereogenic Siloxanes and Alkoxysilanes.

A rhodium-catalyzed enantioselective construction of triorgano-substituted silicon-stereogenic siloxanes and alkoxysilanes is developed. This process undergoes a direct intermolecular dehydrogenative Si-O coupling between dihydrosilanes with silanols or alocohols, giving access to a variety of highly functionalized chiral siloxanes and alkoxysilanes in decent yields with excellent control, that significantly expand the chemical space of the silicon-centered chiral molecules. Further utility of this process was illustrated by the construction of CPL-active (circularly polarized luminescence) silicon-stereogenic alkoxysilane small organic molecules.

Enantioselective construction of six- and seven-membered triorgano-substituted silicon-stereogenic heterocycles.

The exploitation of chirality at silicon in asymmetric catalysis is one of the most intriguing and challenging tasks in synthetic chemistry. In particular, construction of enantioenriched mediem-sized silicon-stereogenic heterocycles is highly attractive, given the increasing demand for the synthesis of novel functional-materials-oriented silicon-bridged compounds. Here, we report a rhodium-catalyzed enantioselective construction of six- and seven-membered triorgano-substituted silicon-stereogenic heterocycles.

Streamlined Construction of Silicon-Stereogenic Silanes by Tandem Enantioselective C-H Silylation/Alkene Hydrosilylation.

A rhodium-catalyzed tandem enantioselective C-H silylation/alkene hydrosilylation of dihydrosilanes, which enables the streamlined construction of a wide range of silicon-stereogenic silanes, is successfully developed. This process involves a SiH-steered highly enantioselective C-H silylation to furnish the corresponding desymmetric monohydrosilanes, which are subsequently trapped with alkenes in a stereospecific fashion to build functionally diverse asymmetrically tetrasubstituted silanes. This general strategy combines readily available dihydrosilanes and alkenes to construct various enantioenriched silicon-stereogenic silanes, including 9-silafluorenes, Si-bridged ladder compounds, and benzosilolometallocenes, in a single step with good to excellent yields and enantioselectivities.

Tandem Rh(III)-Catalyzed C-H Heteroarylation of Indolyl Ketones and Cu(II)-Promoted Intramolecular Cyclization: One-Pot Access to Blue-Emitting Phenanthrone-Type Polyheterocycles.

Disclosed herein is a highly efficient one-pot synthetic strategy to phenanthrone-type polyheterocycles via tandem rhodium(III)-catalyzed ortho-C-H heteroarylation of indolyl ketones and copper(II)-promoted intramolecular cyclization. This protocol enables a library of blue-emitting fluorophores with high quantum yields and narrow full widths at half-maximum to be rapidly built from readily available substrates, among of which 6,6,7,9,12-pentamethyl-6,12-dihydro-5 H-benzofuro[2,3- a]carbazol-5-one (4a) exhibits pure blue emission with Commission Internationale de I'Eclairage coordinates of (0.15, 0.

Iridium-Catalyzed Direct Regioselective C4-Amidation of Indoles under Mild Conditions.

An efficient Ir-catalyzed amidation of indoles with sulfonyl azides is disclosed, affording diverse C4-amidated indoles exclusively under mild conditions. In this protocol, a variety of indoles with commonly occurring functional groups such as formyl, acetyl, carboxyl, amide, and ester at the C3 position are well tolerated.

Rhodium-catalyzed direct annulation of aldehydes with alkynes leading to indenones: proceeding through in situ directing group formation and removal.

The Rh-catalyzed direct annulation of an aldehyde with an alkyne leading to indenone was achieved. The in situ temporal installation of acetylhydrazine enables the annulation of the ortho arene C-H bond with alkynes to form ketone hydrazone. Subsequently, the in situ directing group removal takes place since ketone hydrazone is more susceptible toward hydrolysis than aldehyde hydrazone.