Miki Murata,Ã Naoaki Fukuyama, Jun-ichi Wada, Shinji Watanabe, and Yuzuru Masuda Department of Materials Science, Kitami Institute of Technology, 165 Koencho, Kitami 090-8507 ... (Received May 16, 2007; CL-070535; E-mail: muratamk@mail.kitami-it.ac.jp) ... The intermolecular dehydrogenative coupling of 1,1,1,3, 5,5,5-heptamethyltrisiloxane with arenes proceeded in the pres- ence of a catalytic amount of platinum complexes prepared in situ from PtCl2 and ...