“…56 Inspired by the previous works on cobalt-catalyzed hydrosilylation of alkynes and enantioselective hydrosilylation of unsaturated bonds, [20][21][22]24 here, we developed a highly enantioselective synthesis of gem-bis (silyl)alkanes enabled by CoBr 2 ,Xantphosand CoBr 2 ,OIP (OIP = oxazoline-iminopyridine)-catalyzed sequential asymmetric double 1,1-hydrosilylation of aliphatic alkynes by using a combination of dihydrosilanes and trihydrosilanes as the silyl source (Scheme 1B). To realize the above transformation, there lie several challenges: (1) how to control the reactivity of two different silanes in which dihydrosilanes have a similar silicon-hydrogen bond dissociation free energy with trihydrosilanes, 57 (2) how to control the complicated regioselectivities in the sequential reaction (1,1versus 1,2-versus 2,1-versus 2,2-bis(silyl)alkanes), 58 and (3) how to achieve the high enantioselectivity in hydrosilylation of 1,2-disubstituted aliphatic alkenes.…”