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Reducing properties of potassium silyl
Williams, Victor A.,Ritter, David M.
, p. 3278 - 3280 (2008/10/08)
Potassium silyl has been found to act preferentially as a powerful reducing agent rather than as a nucleophilic substitution agent. Reactions with phosphorus trichloride and dimethylchlorophosphine gave polymers containing phosphorus-hydrogen bonds. Trimethylchlorosilane underwent transmetalation with its complicated consequences; carbon dioxide was reduced to carbon monoxide and potassium formate, and nitrous oxide gave nitrogen. Silane and polymeric silicon hydrides were produced in all reactions. Titration of potassium silyl with carbon dioxide showed that the reaction is stepwise and complex.