Journal of the American Chemical Society

Mechanism of the reactions of dimethylsilylene with oxetanes

TYY Gu, WP Weber

Index: Gu, Tai-Yin Yang; Weber, William P. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1980 , vol. 102, # 5 p. 1641 - 1644

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Abstract

Abstract: Dimethylsilylene reacts with oxetane to give high yields of allyloxydimethylsilane and 2, 2-dimethyl-1-oxa-2-silacyclopentane. These products result from decomposition of an initial 1, 2-zwitterionic intermediate which is formed by coordination of the electrophilic dimethylsilylene with the oxygen of oxetane. Similar results have been obtained from the reactions of dimethylsilylene with 2-methyloxetane, 2, Z-dimethyloxetane, 3, 3- ...