Synlett 2012; 23(15): 2269-2273
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1290448
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© Georg Thieme Verlag Stuttgart · New York

A Mild Method for Indium(III)-Catalyzed 1,4-Hydrosilylation of α,β-Enone Esters with Triethylsilane and Trifluoroacetic Acid

Ping Xing
a   Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry of Natural Substances, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032, P. R. of China, Fax: +86(21)64166128   Email: jiangb@sioc.ac.cn
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Wei Zang
a   Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry of Natural Substances, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032, P. R. of China, Fax: +86(21)64166128   Email: jiangb@sioc.ac.cn
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Zuo-gang Huang
b   Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 99 Haike Road, Shanghai 201210, P. R. of China
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Yue-xiong Zhan
a   Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry of Natural Substances, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032, P. R. of China, Fax: +86(21)64166128   Email: jiangb@sioc.ac.cn
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Chuan-jun Zhu
b   Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 99 Haike Road, Shanghai 201210, P. R. of China
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Biao Jiang*
a   Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry of Natural Substances, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 345 Lingling Road, Shanghai 200032, P. R. of China, Fax: +86(21)64166128   Email: jiangb@sioc.ac.cn
b   Shanghai Advanced Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 99 Haike Road, Shanghai 201210, P. R. of China
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Publication History

Received: 26 April 2012

Accepted after revision: 23 June 2012

Publication Date:
24 August 2012 (online)


Abstract

A chemo- and stereoselective 1,4-hydrosilylation of α,β-enone esters was developed using triethylsilane and trifluoroacetic acid under indium chloride catalysis.

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