Hybrid silicone

Another useful tool for analyzing the structure of heteroallenes containing silicon is Si NMR. Typically, sp"-hybridized silicon atoms have a chemical shift... 

The chemical shifts of jp3-hybridized silicon atoms, such as a trimethyl-silyl group attached to the jp2-hybridized silicon in silenes, are normally found from -10 to -18 ppm, as compared to the position at -9.8 ppm for the trimethylsilyl groups of (Me3Si)4Si (the central silicon atom of this compound resonates at -135.5 ppm). On the other hand, a trimethylsiloxy group attached to carbon, either sp2- or sp3-hybridized, normally absorbs in the range from +5 to +20 ppm. 

When phenyl (Ph) groups replaced both Me3Si groups, again a rather unstable 1,2-disilacyclobutane dimer appeared to be formed,90 as shown by NMR data but when f-butyl replaced a Me3Si group, the silene failed to dimerize.87 Thus, it is evident that whether or not head-to-head [2 + 2] cyclodimerization occurs depends on the bulk of the substituents on both sp2-hybridized silicon and carbon. 

Reactions favoring [2 + 2] cycloaddition tended to be those that had strongly electronegative groups on the sp2-hybridized silicon but only H and the neopentyl group on the sp2-hybridized carbon atom. Butadiene and cyclohexadiene generally favored [2 + 2] cycloaddition with these silenes. The [2 + 2] adducts with cyclohexadiene appear to be kinetic products, since they cleanly isomerized to the Diels-Alder adducts over time.182... 

Sakurai et al. have provided what is probably the most important mechanistic finding in the area of intermolecular additions of silenes in recent years, namely a detailed proposal for the mechanism of alcohol addition to the silicon-carbon double bond.68 A cyclic silene 116 was synthesized in the presence of various amounts of methanol and other alcohols, and varying proportions of methanol adducts 117 and 118 were obtained. It was concluded that the methanolysis involved two steps, the first being the association of the oxygen lone pairs with the sp 2-hybridized silicon atom of the silene. The second step, proton transfer, could occur in two ways. If the proton was transferred from the complexed methanol molecule (path a) its delivery would result in syn addition. However, if a second molecule of methanol participated (path b), it would deliver its proton... 

Aromatic rings containing, s/j2-hybridized silicon atoms also constitute members of the silene family. Interest in these compounds largely focuses on the possible delocalization of electron density in the rings, the extent to which they display aromatic character, and their relative stabilities. Raabe and Michl6 have reported much data, which will not be repeated here other computational studies are reported in Section III.D. A few interesting additions to our knowledge of these systems have been reported in recent years. 

Guida-Pietrasanta, F. and Boutevin, B. Polysilalkylene or Silarylene Siloxanes Said Hybrid Silicones. Vol. 179, pp. 1-27. 

Use of Original Fluorinated Telomers in the Synthesis of Hybrid Silicones... 

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