Summary Starting from trichloro (vinyl) silane (Cl 3 SiCH= CH 2), the muscarinic antagonists sila-biperiden [rac-(SiRS, C2SR)-exo-2] andendo-sila-biperiden [rac-(SiRS, C2SR)-endo-2] were prepared by a seven-step synthesis. Both silanols are configurationally stable in inert organic solvents but undergo slow epimerization in aqueous solution (pH 7.4, 32 C) by inversion of the configuration at the silicon atom. The relative configurations of sila- ...