Issue 36, 2017
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Dalton Transactions

Ring expansion of a ring expanded carbene†

Lucía García,a   Khalidah H. M. Al Furaiji,b   David J. D. Wilson, ORCID logo b   Jason L. Dutton, ORCID logo b   Michael S. Hill ORCID logo *a  and  Mary F. Mahona  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, UK
E-mail: m.s.hill@bath.ac.uk

b Department of Chemistry and Physics, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3086, Australia

Abstract

Reaction of phenylsilane with the ring expanded carbene 6-Mes results in facile Si–H oxidative addition to the carbenic carbon at room temperature. Heating the resultant diorganosilane product induces ring expansion through silicon to carbon migration of either the Si–H or Si–Ph bonds.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C7DT03046K
Article type
Communication
Submitted
16 Aug 2017
Accepted
21 Aug 2017
First published
21 Aug 2017
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Dalton Trans., 2017,46, 12015-12018

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Ring expansion of a ring expanded carbene

L. García, K. H. M. Al Furaiji, D. J. D. Wilson, J. L. Dutton, M. S. Hill and M. F. Mahon, Dalton Trans., 2017, 46, 12015 DOI: 10.1039/C7DT03046K

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