TY - JOUR ID - pittir17714 UR - http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/17714/ IS - 36 A1 - Zhao, Q A1 - Curran, DP A1 - Malacria, M A1 - Fensterbank, L A1 - Goddard, JP A1 - Lacôte, E Y1 - 2011/08/29/ N2 - 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. JF - Chemistry - A European Journal VL - 17 SN - 0947-6539 TI - N-heterocyclic carbene-catalyzed hydrosilylation of styryl and propargylic alcohols with dihydrosilanes SP - 9911 AV - public EP - 9914 ER -