Synthesis and reactions of (trimethylgermyl) acetates

S Inoue, Y Sato, T Suzuki

Index: Inoue, Sumie; Sato, Yoshiro; Suzuki, Tomoko Organometallics, 1988 , vol. 7, p. 739 - 743

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Abstract

Although the synthetic utility of a-trimethylsilyl esters has been amply demonstrated, lr2 there is no direct method to prepare them from the corresponding esters. All reports to date on the direct trimethylsilylation of esters have shown that the predominant product is that due to 0- silylation and not C-~ ilylation.'*~ One exception to this