Silylative Kinetic Resolution of Racemic 1-Indanol Derivatives Catalyzed by Chiral Guanidine.

Efficient kinetic resolution of racemic 1-indanol derivatives was achieved using triphenylchlorosilane by asymmetric silylation in the presence of chiral guanidine catalysts. The chiral guanidine catalyst (R,R)-N-(1-(β-naphthyl)ethyl)benzoguanidine was found to be highly efficient as only 0.5 mol % catalyst loading was sufficient to catalyze the reaction of various substrates with appropriate conversion and high s-values (up to 89). This catalyst system was successfully applied to the gram-scale silylative kinetic resolution of racemic 1-indanol with high selectivity.