Silanes, unsaturated, oxidative cleavage

A typical method of formation of a transition metal-silicon bond is the oxidative addition of silane derivatives, involving either Si-H or Si-Si bond cleavage, to a low valent, coordinatively unsaturated transition metal complex. Various kinds of transition metal silyl or silylene complexes have so far been synthesised via this method. However, in contrast to the rich chemistry of the late transition metal complexes with an M-Si bond, a limited number of syntheses of Group 6 metal complexes with an M-Si bond have been reported. ... 

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