Just Published in European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry

Authors: Johannes A. Baus, Nadine Laskowski, Reinhold Tacke

Abstract: Treatment of the donor-stabilized silylene [iPrNC(Ph)NiPr]2Si with Ph–C≡C–Ph resulted in a [2+1] cycloaddition reaction to afford a silicon(IV) compound, the first silacyclopropene with a six-coordinate silicon atom. This compound was structurally characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction and multinuclear NMR spectroscopic studies in the solid state and in solution.

Link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejic.201600982/abstract