Journal of the American Chemical Society

Dimethylsilene: CH3SiCH3

PS Skell, EJ Goldstein

Index: Skell,P.S.; Goldstein,E.J. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1964 , vol. 86, p. 1442

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Abstract

The first two reactions involve skeletal rearrangements which we can best rationalize by the assumption of a silacyclopropane intermediate. Although the third reaction can be rationalized as a dimethylsilene insertion on vinyl CH, we prefer the mechanism as it is described above.