Fast Kinetics Study of the Reactions of Transient Silylenes with Alcohols. Direct Detection of Silylene− Alcohol Complexes in Solution

…, SS Kostina, A Bhattacharya, AG Moiseev

Index: Leigh, William J.; Kostina, Svetlana S.; Bhattacharya, Adroha; Moiseev, Andrey G. Organometallics, 2010 , vol. 29, # 3 p. 662 - 670

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Citation Number: 19

Abstract

The mechanism of the O− H insertion reaction of transient silylenes with alcohols in solution has been studied by laser flash photolysis methods. The reaction proceeds via the intermediacy of the corresponding silylene− alcohol donor− acceptor complex, which proceeds to product by a rapid, catalyzed proton-transfer pathway involving a second molecule of alcohol as catalyst.