Cobalt-Catalyzed Difunctionalization of Styrenes Enabled by Ligand Relay
Catalysis
Abstract
Here, we report a cobalt-catalyzed sequential dehydrogenative Heck
silylation/hydroamination of styrenes with hydrosilane and diazo
compound to access 1-amino-2-silyl compounds with excellent
regioselectivity. This difunctionalization reaction could undergo
smoothly using 1 mol% catalyst loading with good functional group
tolerance. Not only di- and tri-substituted hydrosilanes, but also
alkoxysilane are suitable, which does explore the scope of the family of
1-amino-2-silyl compounds. The ligand relay phenomenon between neutral
tridentate NNN ligand and anionic NNN ligand is observed for the first
time via absorption spectra analysis in this one-pot, two-step
transformations. The primary mechanism has been proposed based on the
control experiments.