In recent years, industrial and academic researches have experienced unprecedented changes related to the concept of sustainable development. Health and environment new requirements have prompted chemists to develop chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate hazardous substances. The research work described in this thesis is focused on the development of new reducing systems using hydrosiloxanes as substitutes for aluminum and boron hydrides. In order to achieve this goal, reducing systems combining 1,1,3,3-tetramethyldisiloxane (TMDS) or polymethylhydrosiloxane (PMHS) with titanium or vanadium complexes have been developed for the reduction of amides and nitriles. The nature of both the association “hydrosiloxane – metal” as well as the studied substrate played an important role on the performance and the selectivity of the reaction. On the one hand, selective reductions of amides (tertiary and secondary) and nitriles to aldehydes were carried out respectively in the presence of titanium(IV) tetraisopropoxide and vanadium(V) triisopropoxide oxide. On the other hand, reductions of amides (primary) and nitriles afforded the corresponding primary amines in the presence of titanium(IV) tetraisopropoxide. Finally, these systems have been applied for the synthesis of saturated N-heterocycles. Reduction of dinitrile compounds led, in one step, to piperidine, pyrrolidine and azetidine derivatives through an intramolecular reductive alkylation reaction
