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Preparation of Functional Silica Using a Bioinspired Method
Published on: August 1, 2018
Silenes as novel synthetic reagents: identification of a practical method for silene generation and trapping
Malcolm B Berry1, Russell J Griffiths, Mahesh J Sanganee
1Department of Chemistry, University of Durham, Science Laboratories, South Road, Durham, UK DH1 3LE.
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
|August 12, 2004
Abstract:
The elucidation of a robust and reliable sequence for the generation of highly reactive transient silenes from simple aldehydes is described. The key step involves a silyl-modified Peterson olefination which critically depends on the presence of a sub-stoichiometric amount of soluble lithium salts (LiBr).

