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SUBMITTER: Albright A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3207275 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tetrahedron letters 20111101 46
A unique application of the CuIPr N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) to the dehydrogenative self-coupling of diphenylsilane has been discovered. This transformation is carried out open to air at room temperature, yielding octaphenylcyclotetra(siloxane) quantitatively in one hour. This preparation constitutes a significant improvement over existing methods for the preparation of this compound and demonstrates a novel mode of reactivity for CuIPr. The diphenylsilanone tetramer is the precursor to a numb ...[more]