144297-33-6Relevant articles and documents
Failure in Several Attempts to Prepare Arylsilyl-lithium Reagents by the Gilman Cleavage of Disilanes with Lithium
Rahman, Noorsaadah Abd.,Fleming, Ian,Zwicky, Anna B.
, p. 2401 - 2408 (2007/10/02)
Several diarylsilanes 5,9 and 11 do not cleave with lithium in THF to give silyl-lithium reagents, in contrast to diphenyltetramethyldisilane 2, which is well known to give phenyldimethylsilyl-lithium.Trityldiphenylsilyl bromide 13 reacts with lithium to