Palladium-Catalyzed Ortho-Silylation of Aryl Iodides with Concomitant Arylsilylation of Oxanorbornadiene: Accessing Functionalized ( Z)-β-Substituted Vinylsilanes and Their Analogues.

A palladium-catalyzed ortho-silylation of aryl iodides/arylsilylation of oxanorbornadiene/retro-Diels-Alder domino reaction was developed. Such a transformation provides access to various functionalized ( Z)-β-substituted vinylsilanes with exclusive selectivity using hexamethyldisilane as a bis-silylation reagent and 2,3-dicarbomethoxy-7-oxanorbornadiene (ONBD) as an ortho-C-H activator and ethylene surrogate. A variety of ( Z)-β-substituted vinylgermanes and ( Z)-β-substituted vinylstannanes were also obtained under mild reaction conditions. This atom-economical, stereoselective, and scalable approach is compatible with a diverse range of readily available functionalized aryl iodides.