1, 1-Diphenylsilene

WJ Leigh, CJ Bradaric, GW Sluggett

Index: Leigh, William J.; Bradaric, Christine J.; Sluggett, Gregory W. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1993 , vol. 115, # 12 p. 5332 - 5333

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Abstract

Silenes have been the subject of considerable interest over the past 20 yearse2 They have frequently been postulated as reactive intermediates in the photolysis and thermolysis of organosilicon compounds, usually on the basis of chemical trapping studies or matrix isolation spectroscopy, and several stable silenes have been synthesized. 2 There have, however, been relatively few reports which describe the spectroscopic properties and ...