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DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1077884
Trichlorosilane (HSiCl3) - A Cheap and Convenient Reducing Agent
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Publication Date:
11 June 2008 (online)
Introduction
Trichlorosilane (HSiCl3) is a cheap, stable, and commercially available reagent, which has been widely used as stoichiometric reductant. In general, activators are necessary for HSiCl3 to reduce efficiently C=C, C=O, C=N, and P=O functionalities. The currently most successful methodologies are based on transition-metal-centered catalyzed hydrosilylation; however, recent advances in the field of organocatalysis have also provided a series of small organic molecules as efficient alternative catalysts for asymmetric reductions of ketones or imines with HSiCl3. In this paper, reductions using HSiCl3 are summarized.
A number of methods are available for the preparation of trichlorosilane in the laboratory, for example, by the reaction of dry HCl gas with silicon (Scheme [¹] ) [¹] or with metallic silicides. [²] The title compound is also an abundant byproduct of the industrial Rochow process. [³]
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