Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidative Silylation of Simple Olefins To Give Allylsilanes Using Hexamethyldisilane and Molecular Oxygen as the Sole Oxidant.

A Pd-catalyzed oxidative silylation of simple olefins with hexamethyldisilane to give allylsilanes has been achieved using molecular oxygen as the sole oxidant. The reaction provides a useful protocol to access synthetically useful allylsilanes from easily accessible simple olefins and hexamethyldisilane without using any oxidants other than O2.