Photolysis of permethylated linear and branched-chain polysilanes

1 January 1971

journal article
research article
Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society D: Chemical Communications

No. 10,p. 489
https://doi.org/10.1039/c29710000489

Abstract

Permethylated linear polysilanes Me[SiMe₂]_nMe (n= 3–6) and branched-chain polysilanes Me₃Si[(Me₃Si)SiMe]_nSiMe₃(n= 1,2) undergo photolysis at room temperature with loss of dimethylsilylene Me₂Si: in the former case and (trimethylsilyl)methylsilylene Me₃SiSiMe: in the latter.

Keywords

PERMETHYLATED LINEAR
BRANCHED
SIME2
NME
ME3SISIME
LOSS
METHYLSILYLENE
FORMER
TRIMETHYLSILYL

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