Ring expansion of a ring expanded carbene.
Lucía GarcíaKhalidah H M Al FuraijiDavid J D WilsonJason L DuttonMichael S HillMary F MahonPublished in: Dalton transactions (Cambridge, England : 2003) (2017)
Reaction of phenylsilane with the ring expanded carbene 6-Mes results in facile Si-H oxidative addition to the carbenic carbon at room temperature. Heating the resultant diorganosilane product induces ring expansion through silicon to carbon migration of either the Si-H or Si-Ph bonds.