NHC‐Rhodium‐catalyzed synthesis of novel silsesquioxanes containing S‐Si and S‐Ge bonds and their application in hydrosilylation process

The efficient and straightforward NHC‐rhodium‐catalyzed thiol‐silane and thiol‐germanane coupling reactions, leading to new classes of functionalized SQ‐based materials, are presented for the first time. The proposed strategies use commercially available reagents and show a broad functional groups tolerance, which opens a possibility of effective synthetic procedures of biologically active compounds.