title: A generic one-pot route to acyclic two-coordinate silylenes from silicon(IV) precursors: synthesis and structural characterization of a silylsilylene.
abstract: Si in sight: a one-pot, single-step synthesis of an acyclic silylsilylene, Si{Si(SiMe(3))(3)}{N(SiMe(3))Dipp} (Dipp=2,6-iPr(2)C(6)H(3)), from a silicon(IV) starting material is reported, together with evidence for a mechanism involving alkali metal silylenoid intermediates.
authors.affiliation: Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, UK.
authors.forename: Andrey V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Protchenko
authors.forename: Andrew D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Schwarz
authors.forename: Matthew P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Blake
authors.forename: Cameron
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Nikolas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kaltsoyannis
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mountford
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aldridge