Csaba Fekete, Ilona Kovács, László Nyulászi and Tamás Holczbauer
Chem. Commun., 2017,53, 11064-11067
DOI:
10.1039/C7CC07004G,
Communication
The first planar lithium silolide characterized by X-ray crystallography is reported. The structural data, NMR and DFT results reveal high aromatic character, with the unusual dominance of non-classical resonance structures.