Vinylsilanes are versatile and efficient nucleophiles in cross-coupling reactions. Herein is described the use of tetrabutylammonium bifluoride as a mild, cheap and scalable activating agent in several copper-catalyzed vinylsilane cross-couplings.
Cornelissen, L., Nagy, A., Leyssens, T., & Riant, O. (2017). Tetrabutylammonium Bifluoride as an Efficient Activating Agent for Copper-Catalyzed Vinylsilane Cross-Coupling Reactions. Synlett : accounts and rapid communications in synthetic organic chemistry, 28, 2465-2467. https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0036-1588504 (Original work published 2017)