Hybrid Metal/Organo Relay Catalysis Enables Enynes To Be Latent Dienes for Asymmetric Diels–Alder Reaction

The hybrid Au(I)/Brønsted acid binary catalyst system enables enynes to serve as latent 1,3-silyloxydienes capable of participating in the first cascade hydrosiloxylation of an enynyl silanol/asymmetric Diels-Alder reaction. A variety of polycyclic compounds bearing multistereogenic centers were obtained in high yields and excellent enantioselectivities from the relay catalytic cascade reaction between (2-(but-3-en-1-ynyl)phenyl) silanols and quinones catalyzed by the combined achiral gold complex and chiral N-triflyl phosphoramide.