Highly efficient palladium catalyst system for addition of trihydrosilanes to acetylenes and its application to thermally stable polycarbosilane synthesis

Abstract

Regio- and stereo-selective mono-, di- and tri-alkenylation of trihydrosilanes with monoynes proceeded smoothly with a Pd–PCy₃ catalyst, while the reaction of phenylsilane with 1,4-diethynylbenzene provided a thermally stable and blue light emissive polycarbosilane.

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