Application
Silver trifluoromethanesulfonate, a light beige crystalline powder, serves a versatile role in chemical synthesis. It effectively generates cationic rhodium catalysts from chlororhodium complexes, facilitating the hydrophosphination of acetylenes. Additionally, it acts as a catalyst for the preparation of silyl ethers via hydrosilylation of aldehydes. It is instrumental in forming p-complexes with monoenes, dienes, trienes, monoynes, and diynes, as well as in synthesizing mesomorphic complexes through reactions with 2-fluoro- and 3-fluoro-4-alkoxystilbazoles. Its utility extends to promoting O-glycoside synthesis when combined with iodine monochloride. Silver trifluoromethanesulfonate also serves as a precatalyst in asymmetric allylation of aldehydes, and as a catalyst in various reactions such as intramolecular additions of alcohols and carboxylic acids to inert olefins, fluorination of boronic acids and functionalized aryl stannanes, cyclopropenation of internal alkynes with donor/acceptor substituted diazo compounds, and for the reaction of 2-alkynylbenzaldehyde with 2-isocyanoacetate.