Silacycles are ubiquitous building blocks. Small silacycles can typically be expanded
catalytically. A silirane, silirene and phosphasilirene as well as a siletane and a silolene …

The synthesis of silacycles is highly appealing due to their important applications in organic
synthesis, medicinal chemistry, and materials chemistry. However, sila‐tetralins and sila …

Small-ring silacycles are important organosilane species in main-group chemistry and have
found numerous applications in organic synthesis. 3-Silaazetidine, a unique small silacycle …

Herein, a readily available disilane Me3SiSiMe2 (OnBu) has been developed for the
synthesis of diverse silacycles via Brook-and retro-Brook-type rearrangement. This protocol …

Palladium-catalyzed reactions of cis-1, 1-di-tert-butyl-2, 3-dimethylsilirane with disubstituted
alkynes produced thermally stable silirenes in high yields (81− 86%). Alkyl-, aryl …

Intramolecular homolytic aromatic silylation of biphenyl-2-hydrosilanes via silyl radicals has
been developed for the synthesis of silafluorenes. Moreover, silaindenes are synthesized …

Synthesis of silacycle compounds are of fundamental and application importance. Herein
we report the first example of insertion of metal‐substituted silylene fragment into …

Silylenes have recently shown fascinating reactivity patterns, which are normally observed
almost exclusively for transition-metal complexes. In particular, very reactive representatives …

The synthesis of a bis (α-spirocyclopropyl) silylene is reported and its reactivity revealed.
Liberation of the silylene was accomplished by UV-light-mediated photolysis of a trisilane …

Metal-catalyzed silylene transfer to imines provides an efficient synthesis of silaaziridines.
These strained cyclic silanes undergo selective bond-forming reactions, permitting the …