Using the techniques of Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance spectroscopy, we determined the proton affinity of silylene to be 201 f 3 kcalmol-'from a study of the kinetics and thermochemistry of proton transfer from SiH3+ to a series of n-donor bases with well- established gas-phase base strengths. This value leads to= 69 f 3 kcal. mol-l, which is 11 kcal-mol-'higher than the previously accepted value (Walsh, R. Acc. Chem. Res. 1981, 14, ...
[Cremer, Dieter; Gauss, Juergen; Childs, Ronald F.; Blackburn, Christopher Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1985 , vol. 107, # 8 p. 2435 - 2441]