A generic one-pot route to acyclic two-coordinate silylenes from silicon(IV) precursors: synthesis and structural characterization of a silylsilylene

Andrey V Protchenko; Andrew D Schwarz; Matthew P Blake; Cameron Jones; Nikolas Kaltsoyannis; Philip Mountford; Simon Aldridge

doi:10.1002/anie.201208554

A generic one-pot route to acyclic two-coordinate silylenes from silicon(IV) precursors: synthesis and structural characterization of a silylsilylene

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2013 Jan 7;52(2):568-71. doi: 10.1002/anie.201208554. Epub 2012 Nov 20.

Authors

Andrey V Protchenko¹, Andrew D Schwarz, Matthew P Blake, Cameron Jones, Nikolas Kaltsoyannis, Philip Mountford, Simon Aldridge

Affiliation

¹ Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, UK.

PMID: 23165894
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201208554

Abstract

Si in sight: a one-pot, single-step synthesis of an acyclic silylsilylene, Si{Si(SiMe(3))(3)}{N(SiMe(3))Dipp} (Dipp=2,6-iPr(2)C(6)H(3)), from a silicon(IV) starting material is reported, together with evidence for a mechanism involving alkali metal silylenoid intermediates.