Excited-state reactions of an isolable silylene with aromatic compounds

…, S Ishida, T Iwamoto, C Kabuto

Index: Kira, Mitsuo; Ishida, Shintaro; Iwamoto, Takeaki; Kabuto, Chizuko Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2002 , vol. 124, # 15 p. 3830 - 3831

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Abstract

The first intermolecular reactions of the excited state of a silicon divalent compound (silylene) with benzene derivatives were discovered. Typically, when a benzene solution of an isolable silylene is irradiated with light of wavelengths longer than 420 nm at room temperature, the corresponding silacyclohepta-2, 4, 6-triene (silepin) is yielded quantitatively. The photochemical insertion of the silylene toward substituted benzenes ...