As a result of the report of Kharasch and coworkers' of the addition of polyhalomethanes to olefins with terminal double bonds and the subsequent publications of several authors? of similar reactions of trichlorosilane, it was o€ interest to investigate the manner in which triphenylsilane, as an analog to triphenylmethane, reacts with olefins. In the course of a current investigation of the preparation and properties of some long-chained ...
