Journal of the American Chemical Society

Evidence for the Isomerization of 1-Methylsilene to Dimethylsilylene

RT Conlin, DL Wood

Index: Conlin, Robert T.; Wood, David L. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1981 , vol. 103, # 7 p. 1843 - 1844

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Abstract

Among the most convenient methods employed to generate simple silaethylenes (silenes) is the thermal fragmentation of appropriately substituted alkylsilacyclobutanes.'For example, the formation of 1, l-dimethylsilene and ethylene from the gasphase pyrolysis of 1, l- dimethylsilacyclobutane has been firmly established by direct detection (mass spectrometry* and matrix is01ation)~ and kinetic4 and chemical trapping studiess Never-