Norio Sakai, Tsuyoshi Fukushima, Satoshi Minakata, Ilhyong Ryu and Mitsuo Komatsu
The photochemical generation of silacarbonyl ylides from a silylene and carbonyl compounds and their inter- or intra-molecular 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition with olefins leading to silicon heterocycles in one step was successful.