relation: http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/17714/ title: N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed hydrosilylation of styryl and propargylic alcohols with dihydrosilanes creator: Zhao, Q creator: Curran, DP creator: Malacria, M creator: Fensterbank, L creator: Goddard, JP creator: Lacôte, E description: Reducing alkenes to tears: Addition of structurally diverse N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) to silicon allows the reduction of propargylic and styryl alcohols through an organocatalyzed silylation/direct hydride transfer tandem reaction (see scheme). Catalytic turnover is enabled by the switch to and from hypervalent silicon. This provides a new synthetic application of NHC-main group element complexes. Copyright © 2011 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. date: 2011-08-29 type: Article type: PeerReviewed format: text/plain language: en rights: attached identifier: http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/17714/1/licence.txt identifier: Zhao, Q and Curran, DP and Malacria, M and Fensterbank, L and Goddard, JP and Lacôte, E (2011) N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed hydrosilylation of styryl and propargylic alcohols with dihydrosilanes. Chemistry - A European Journal, 17 (36). 9911 - 9914. ISSN 0947-6539 relation: 10.1002/chem.201101822