Direct Silyl-Heck Reaction of Chlorosilanes

A nickel complex/Lewis acid combination effectively catalyzed the direct silyl Heck reaction of chlorosilanes, which are key raw materials in the organosilicon industry, to give synthetically important alkenylsilane products. Trichlorosilanes, dichlorosilanes, and monochlorosilanes underwent the silyl Heck reaction to afford the corresponding alkenylsilanes in high yields. In the reactions of dichlorosilanes, a single substitution occurred to give monoalkenylsilanes in a highly selective manner.