Aromatics n-bonded

During the past eight years, we have studied the reactions of thermally generated silicon atoms with a variety of low-molecular-weight reactants in an argon matrix. The reaction products were identified by means of IR and UV/Vis spectroscopy aided by comparison with calculated spectra. The method turned out to be very versatile and successful [1]. The selected substrates were mainly molecules with isolated, conjugated or aromatic n bonds, and compounds containing a bonds and at the same time free electron pairs. 

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