Trimethylsilylacetylene

Chemical properties

CLEAR COLORLESS LIQUID

Physical properties

bp 53 °C; d 0.695 g cm?3.

The Uses of Trimethylsilylacetylene

Trimethylsilylacetylene is a valuable reagent used in ethynylation by palladium(0)-catalyzed coupling/condensation with aryl and vinyl halides and triflates, or by nucleophilic attack of the corresponding acetylide on electrophilic centers; reacts with alkyl iodides, tin hydrides,6 and dichloroketene in a regioselective and stereoselective manner, participating in the following synthesis reactions: Ethynylations, Palladium(0)-Catalyzed Coupling Reactions,Reaction of Trimethylsilylacetylides with Electrophiles, Radical-Initiated and Transition Metal-Catalyzed Additions, Cycloaddition Reactions, Ethynylations, Cycloaddition Reactions, Further Transformations etc.

The Uses of Trimethylsilylacetylene

Ethynyltrimethylsilane was used in: ? microwave-assisted, one-pot, three-step Sonogashira cross-coupling-desilylation-cycloaddition reaction for the preparation of 1,4-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazoles synthesis of poly(ethynyltrimethylsilane) containing Pd (II) coordination sites pyrazole synthesis via 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of diazo compounds to acetylenes

The Uses of Trimethylsilylacetylene

(Trimethylsilyl)acetylene is used in the preparation of trimethylsilanyl-propiolic acid ethyl ester by reacting with carbonochloridic acid ethyl ester as well as in the synthesis of iodoalkenes by radical addition of perfluoroalkyl iodides. It is used as a nucleophile in Friedel-Crafts type acylations and alkylations reactions, as a ligand in organometallic chemistry and an useful reagent in cycloaddition reactions. It acts as a precursor to lithium trimethylsilylacetylide It finds application in the synthesis of (±)-estrone.

General Description

Laser-induced polymerization of gaseous ethynyltrimethylsilane was used for efficient chemical vapour deposition of polycarbosilane films. Ethynyltrimethylsilane acts as substrate for nickel-catalyzed cross-coupling with benzonitriles.

Purification Methods

Distil it through an efficient column. The IR has bands at max 2041 (CC) and 3289 (C-H) cm-1. [Kr.hnke & Goss Chem Ber 92 30 1959, Beilstein 4 IV 3937.]