Herbert W. Roesky and his colleagues based at Universität Göttingen, in Germany, have discovered the first example of 1,4-disilabenzene that is room temperature stable. The compound was characterized by means of single crystal X-ray diffraction studies. Nucleus Independent Chemical Shift calculations showed that the compound also has some aromatic character.
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