Magnesium as sacrificial anode

Electrochemical Si-Si bond formation has been known since the work of E. Hengge and G. Litscher in 1976, using a divided cell and a mercury anode [5]. Later, T. Shono developed a new undivided cell design employing magnesium as sacrificial anode, which is oxidized and subsequently converted to MgCL by the chloride from the chlorosilane [6]. 

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