In this hot article David Rankin and co-workers synthesise a possible precursor to the elusive silicon-silicon triple bond:
The gas-phase structure and some reactions of the bulky primary silane (Me3Si)3CSiH3 and the solid-state structure of the bulky dialkyl disilane [(Me3Si)3CSiH2]2
Sarah L. Masters, David W. H. Rankin, David B. Cordes, Karin Bätz, Paul D. Lickiss, Neil M. Boag, Alan D. Redhouse and Stephen M. Whittaker, Dalton Trans., 2010, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0DT00100G
This article is to be published in the upcoming themed issue entitled ‘New Horizon of Organosilicon Chemistry‘, which has been Guest Edited by Mitsuo Kira (Tohoku University, Japan) and is due to be published online next month.
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