Journal of Organometallic Chemistry

Improved synthetic route to potassium silyl using crown ethers, potassium, and silane and its use to prepare methylsilane and disilylmethane

BF Fieselmann, CR Dickson

Index: Fieselmann, Benjamin F.; Dickson, C. Robert Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 1989 , vol. 363, p. 1 - 6

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Abstract

Abstract The time for the reaction between K and SiH 4 in glyme is reduced from months to hours by addition of 18-crown-6 to form [K (18-crown-6)] SiH 3. The usefulness of the reaction to prepare the SiH− 3 anion as a synthetic intermediate is demonstrated by the ...