Bond dissociation energy values carbon-silicon

However, recent evidence indicates that the dissociation energy of the silicon-silicon bond of disilane is 81.3 kcal mole, comparable to the dissociation energy of the carbon-carbon bond in ethane (83 kcal mole ), rather than earlier values of about 50kcalmole W. C. Steele and F. G. A. Stone,/. Am. Chem. Soc. 84,3599 (1%2). 

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