)diphenylsilane (1d) with tris(pentafluorophenyl)-borane gave the corresponding boryl-substituted silole derivative (7d) featuring six bulky substituents attached at the central heterocyclic framework. Both the starting materials (1c, 1d) and the products (7c, 7d) were characterized by X-ray crystal structure analyses.Keywords: boranes; 1,1-carboboration; Lewis acids; siloles
IntroductionThe synthetic chemistry of siloles has found increased interest lately. [1,2] This is mostly due to their use in modern materials chemistry. Suitably substituted silole derivatives have found extensive use due to their photoluminescent properties. [1b,c,3-7] Some derivatives were used as sensor materials. [8] Early synthetic entries to siloles [9] include salt metathesis routes, e.g., by reacting substituted 1,4-dilithiobutadiene reagents with R 2 SiCl 2 substrates. [10,11] A related route was used more recently to prepare lithio-A C H T U N G T R E N N U N G siloles. [12] Other work reported in the last 15 years makes use of the ready formation of the group 4 metallacyclopentadienes [13] and related complexes [14] followed by direct or indirect transmetallation from titanium or zirconium to silicon. [15] Tamao et al. developed an ingenious method of silole formation from bisA C H T U N G T R E N N U N G (alkynyl)silanes (1a) by treatment with Li/naphthalene. [16] The formation of the silole products (3) probably takes place by means of an intramolecular ring closure of a bis-radical anion intermediate (2) (see Scheme 1). This route has extensively been applied for the preparation of novel silole-based electronic materials. [6,7a,b,d-f,h] In this context, boron-and silicon-containing systems have become of interest, and easy accesses to specifically functionalized boryl-substituted siloles or similar compounds are becoming increasingly important.[17] Wrackmeyer et al. have developed and described a fascinating one-pot procedure for the preparation of boryl-substituted silole derivatives (7b) by treatment of a bisA C H T U N G T R E N N U N G (alkynyl)silane (1b) with, for example, triethylborane. [1a,2a,18,19] The unique reaction sequence involves alkynyl abstraction/1,1-carboboration followed by a 1,1-alkenylboration step to directly lead to the boryl-functionalized silole derivative (see Scheme 1).[20] Unfortunately, the reaction with simple alkylboranes often requires elevated temperatures (ca. 100 8C).When more reactive boranes were used (e.g., triallylborane, 1-boraadamantane) the reaction conditions
FULL PAPERSof the 1,1-organoboration reactions were milder but sometimes the formation of side products took place. [21] We have now found that this general reaction sequence can very favourably be used for the synthesis of substituted siloles containing a combination of C 6 F 5 and BA C H T U N G T R E N N U N G (C 6 F 5 ) 2 groups that are probably of great advantage in the respective areas of silole-derived materials science. We describe two representative examples in this article.
Results and DiscussionFollowing proced...