Palladium-Catalyzed Enantioselective Desymmetrization of Silacyclobutanes: Construction of Silacycles Possessing a Tetraorganosilicon Stereocenter

A palladium-catalyzed desymmetrization of alkyne-tethered silacyclobutanes to give silacycles possessing a tetraorganosilicon stereocenter has been developed, and high chemo- and enantioselectivities have been achieved by the use of a newly synthesized chiral phosphoramidite ligand.