Structures of Metal-Silyl Complexes

Informative spectral features of metal-silyl complexes include the CO stretching frequencies of ancillary CO ligands and Si NMR chemical sliifts of the silicon in the silyl group. Because silyl groups tend to be weaker donors than alkyl groups, the CO stretching 

Metal-silyl complexes are t)q)ically prepared by salt displacements, oxidative additions of an Si-H bond (Chapter 6), and a bond metatheses involving Si-H bonds. The reactions in Equations 4.112-4.117 illustrate examples of these processes. 

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