Abstract tert-Butyllithium/N, N, N′, N′-tetramethylethylenediamine (TMEDA) complex reacts with trimethylchloro-and trimethylbromosilanes to give mixtures of the coupling product tert-butyltrimethylsilane (I) and metalation products 1-chloro-1, 1, 3, 3, 3- pentamethyldisilmethylene (II) and 1-bromo-1, 1, 3, 3, 3-pentamethyldisilmelene, respectively. Trimethylfluorosilane and tert-butyllithium/TMEDA give only (I). Compound (I) ...
[Tyler; Sommer; Whitmore Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1947 , vol. 69, p. 981 Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1948 , vol. 70, p. 2877]
