Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka City University, 3‐3‐138 Sugimoto, Sumiyoshi‐ku, Osaka 558‐8585 (Japan), Fax: (+81)?6‐6605‐2547, http://www.sci.osaka‐cu.ac.jp/chem/cc/index.html
Abstract:
A variety of tertiary silanes , even those with functional substituents, undergo an unprecedented iron‐catalyzed dehydrogenative coupling (see scheme) in a convenient approach to disilanes, including unsymmetrical disilanes and polymers with Si? Si bonds in the backbone. Consideration of the catalytic reaction pathway revealed the intermediacy of a hydrido(disilyl)iron(IV) complex.
