The chemical behaviour of cobalt-stabilized carbenes having a trisubstituted silyl or germyl ligand. Stereospecific formation of benzoylsilanes from the reaction of …

G Cerveau, E Colomer, RJP Corriu…

Index: Cerveau, Genevieve; Colomer, Ernesto; Corriu, Robert J.P.; Young, J. Colin Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 1981 , vol. 205, # 1 p. 31 - 45

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Abstract We report the chemical behavior of cobalt-stabilized carbenes, R 3 M (CO) 3 CoC (OEt) R′, and their parent anions, R 3 M (CO) 3 CoC (O−) R′, where M= Si or Ge. The anions where M= Si, R′= Ph decompose thermally into the corresponding benzoylsilanes; when the silicon atom is chiral (R 3= MePh-1-Np) optically active R 3 SiCOPh is obtained with complete retention of configuration.