Abstract
Although there has been significant progress in the development of transition-metal-catalyzed hydrosilylations of alkenes over the past several decades, metal-free hydrosilylation is still rare and highly desirable. Herein, we report a convenient visible-light-driven metal-free hydrosilylation of both electron-deficient and electron-rich alkenes that proceeds through selective hydrogen atom transfer for Si-H activation. The synergistic combination of the organophotoredox catalyst 4CzIPN with quinuclidin-3-yl acetate enabled the hydrosilylation of electron-deficient alkenes by selective Si-H activation while the hydrosilylation of electron-rich alkenes was achieved by merging photoredox and polarity-reversal catalysis.
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