Organometallics

Dehydrocoupling of 1, 1-dihydrotetraphenylsilole to an electroluminescent polysilole

BH Kim, HG Woo

Index: Woo, Hee-Gweon; Song, Sun-Jung Chemistry Letters, 1999 , # 6 p. 457 - 458

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Abstract

Catalytic dehydrocoupling of 1,1-dihydrotetraphenylsilole (1) with various inorganic hydrides produces electroluminescent polysiloles (2) in high yield. The polymerization yield and molecular weight increase in the order LiB[CH(CH 3 )C 2 H 5 ] 3 H < NaB[CH(CH 3 )C 2 H 5 ] 3 H <