6533b7cffe1ef96bd12591fe

RESEARCH PRODUCT

Isolation of a Stable, Acyclic, Two-Coordinate Silylene

subject

description

The synthesis and characterization of a stable, acyclic two-coordinate silylene, Si(SArMe6)2, (ArMe6 = C6H3-2,6(C6H2-2,4,6-Me3)2) by reduction of Br2Si(SArMe6)2 with a magnesium(I) reductant is described. It features a v-shaped silicon coordination with a S-Si-S angle of 90.519(2)° and an average Si-S distance of 2.158(3) Å. Although it reacts readily with an alkyl halide, it does not react with hydrogen under ambient conditions probably as a result of the ca. 4.3 eV energy difference between the frontier silicon lone pair and 3p orbitals. peerReviewed