Journal of organometallic chemistry

Electrochemical synthesis of cyclic alkylsilanes

V Jouikov, V Krasnov

Index: Jouikov, V.; Krasnov, V. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 1995 , vol. 498, # 2 p. 213 - 220

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Abstract

The electrochemical reduction of aliphatic α, ω-dibromides in the presence of polychlorosilanes of the formula RnSiCl4− n (n= 0, 2) was shown to afford heterocyclic silicon compounds in good yield (up to 91%). In contrast to non-electrochemical methods of synthesis of silacycloalkanes, based on the ring closure of terminal unsaturated compounds, the electrochemical route does not produce α-methylated byproducts and the heterocycle ...