Silylation of primary alcohols with recyclable ruthenium catalyst and hydrosilanes

Synthesis of nitrogen and sulfur co-doped hierarchical porous carbons and metal-free oxidative coupling of silanes with alcohols

Hierarchically porous N and S co-doped carbon was used as an efficient and robust metal-free catalyst for oxidative coupling of silanes with alcohols.

Highly efficient etherification of silanes by using a gold nanoparticle catalyst: remarkable effect of O(2)

O2 is acting! A nanosized hydroxylapatite-supported Au nanoparticle (NP) catalyst exhibited high activity under aerobic conditions, and various silyl ethers could be obtained from diverse combinations of silanes with alcohols. Moreover, O2 was found to act not as a stoichiometric oxidizing reagent, but as a non-consumed promoter, significantly boosting the catalytic activity of AuNPs.