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A Thermally Induced Novel Fragmentation Reaction of Transition Metal Silylcarbene Complexes
Schubert, Ulrich,Hoernig, Hannelore,Erdmann, Kai-Uwe,Weiss, Karin
, p. 13 - 14 (1984)
The carbene complexes (CO)5WC(OEt)SiPh3 (1) and (CO)5WC(NEt2)SiPh3 (2) thermally decompose to give triphenylsilane, ethylene, and W(CO)6 or (CO)5WCNEt, respectively, while in the presence of moist CO, 2O is formed, believed to arise via the ketene intermediate, Ph3Si(EtO)C=C=O.
