Experimental search for the silanone-to-silylene rearrangement

TJ Barton, GP Hussmann

Index: Barton,T.J.; Hussmann,G.P. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1985 , vol. 107, p. 7581

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Abstract

Abstract: Pyrolysis of 1, 3, 5, 7-tetramethyl-l, 3, 5, 7-tetrakis (trimethy~ silyl) cyclotetrasiloxane in the presence of 1, 3-butadiene affords the silacyclopentene product from trapping of silylene, Me3SiOSiMe. Although this result is consistent with isomerization of silanone, ...