Tetrahedron letters

A novel synthesis of tetramesityldisilene

C Chiappe, G Imperato, D Lenoir, E Napolitano

Index: Chiappe, Cinzia; Imperato, Giovanni; Lenoir, Dieter; Napolitano, Elio Tetrahedron Letters, 2006 , vol. 47, # 50 p. 8893 - 8895

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Abstract

At the outset of a new project aimed at elucidating the mechanism of the reaction between disilenes and electrophiles using the approach developed for analogous studies of carbon–carbon double bond reactivity, 2 we required a convenient route to our starting materials (eg, 1). Unfortunately, we experienced difficulties in consistently obtaining the desired compound 1 using the known low-temperature photolysis of 2,2-dimesityl-1,1,1,3,3,3-hexametyltrisilane, ...