Chemistry Letters, Vol.42, No.12, 1551-1553, 2013
Syntheses of Aldol Products and Cyanohydrins from Carboxylic Acids Using Hydrosilanes, Organosilicon Reagents, and Indium Triiodide Catalyst
Carboxylic acids were applied to an indium triiodide-catalyzed reductive aldol reaction and a reductive cyanation in order to produce aldol adducts and cyanohydrins, respectively, in which the separate addition of two kinds of hydrosilanes was crucial in combination with either ketene silyl acetals or silyl cyanides.