The unusual dimerization of 1-mesityl-2,3,4-tri-t-butyl-1-silacyclobutadiene: a solid state structure
- 1 January 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 11,p. 706-708
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39890000706
Abstract
The dimerization of 1-mesityl-2,3,4-tri-t-butyl-1-silacyclobutadiene proceeds through an initial [1,5] sigmatropic shift to give a long-lived o-silaxylylene which subsequently undergoes Diels–Alder addition to the silicon–carbon double bond of a remaining silacyclobutadiene.Keywords
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