The first isolable 2-silenolate
The first isolable 2-silenolate
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DOI:
10.1002/anie.200250400
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发表时间:
2003-01-01
影响因子:
16.6
通讯作者:
Ottosson, H
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作者:
Guliashvili, T;El-Sayed, I;Ottosson, H
Enolates hold a central position in organic chemistry.[1] However, there has been much less focus on silenolates, that is, Si analogues of enolates (Scheme1). So far 1-silenolates have not been made, and even computational studies of these species are absent. With regard to 2-silenolates, there are only a handful of reports from the groups of Bravo-Zhivotovskii and Apeloig [2, 3] and Ishikawa and Ohshita.[4] It was found that 2-silenolates with bulky alkyl or aryl substituents on the carbonyl carbon atom are moderately stable at low temperatures, thus allowing their characterization by NMR spectroscopy. At room temperature these compounds undergo degradation within a few hours, presumably preceded by dimerization.[4] Our interest lies in silenes that display reversed Si¼C bond polarity (SidÀ¼Cd+),[5] which is enabled by delocalization of the negative charge from π-electron-donating substituents in the 2-position to the silene Si atom.[6] These reverse-polarized silenes are less reactive towards moisture and alcohols than naturally polarized silenes (Sid+¼CdÀ), and addition of alcohol proceeds by an unexpected regiochemistry because CÀO instead of SiÀO bonds are formed.[5, 7, 8] The reverse-polarized silenes also react selectively with dienes to yield only [4þ2] adducts.[4, 5, 7] This is in contrast to the naturally polarized silenes, which give [2þ2] and ene adducts as well.[9]The negative charge in 2-silenolates resides on the O and/or Si atom (Scheme 1). If resonance structure II dominates, then the electronic structure resembles that of a reversepolarized silene. Such 2-silenolates should contain SiÀC single bonds (% 1.87),[10] and the Si atoms will be similar to those of silyl anions, that is, strongly pyramidal.[11] On the other hand, if 2-silenolates are dominated by structure I the SiC bond lengths will be close to that of a Si¼C double bond (1.704 in H2Si¼CH2),[12] and the Si atoms will be planar. There is very little structural information available on 2-silenolates. According to HF/6-31G (d) calculations,[(H3Si) 2SiC (O) Me] À has a SiC bond of 1.926, corresponding to a SiÀC single bond.[4b] However, can Hartree–Fock correctly describe 2-silenolates, and how does the result obtained for the gas phase transfer to condensed phases? Indeed, variable temperature 1H NMR spectroscopy suggests a partial Si¼C double bond with an activation energy for bond rotation of 14.3 kcalmolÀ1.[4b] As part of our study on how reversed polarization affects Si¼C-bonded compounds, we have now generated a crystallizable 2-silenolate. This is also the first experimentally determined crystal structure of a heavy Group 14 enolate. We started from tris (trimethylsilyl) acylsilane (1, Scheme 2), but instead of applying a silyllithium reagent for abstraction of a trimethylsilyl group we used tBuOK.[13] This