Summary: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2002, 41, No. 4 ¹ WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH, 69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2002 1433-7851/02/4104-0649 $ 17.50+.50/0 649
The Synthesis of the First
Compound with Li-Si-Hg Bonding:
[{Li(iPr3Si)2Si}2Hg]­a Source for the
[Li(iPr3Si)2Si] .
Radical**
Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii,*
Michael Yuzefovich, Nadejda Sigal,
Gady Korogodsky, Karl Klinkhammer,
Boris Tumanskii, Alex Shames, and
Yitzhak Apeloig*
The chemistry of geminal organometallic reagents
of the general type [R2CMM'] (M, M' metals) is a
vigorously developing field and a variety of such
reagents have been recently prepared.[1]
In contrast, almost
nothing is known on the organosilicon [R2SiMM'] ana-
logues.[2]
The first geminal dimetallic organosilicon com-
pound, [(iPr3Si)2SiLi2], was first isolated in 1999 and its

Source: Apeloig, Yitzhak - Department of Chemistry, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology

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