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Chem. Commun., 2008, 1124-1126
DOI:
10.1039/B717568J
Received
13 Nov 2007,
Accepted
10 Dec 2007
First published online
08 Jan 2008
A variety of cyclopropenes undergo direct silylation using (trifluoromethyl)trimethylsilane in the presence of a copper–bisphosphine catalyst; under these conditions, cyclopropenes that might otherwise undergo ring-opening are silylated efficiently.