Abstract
Time-resolved studies of silylene, SiH2, generated by laser flash photolysis of phenylsilane, have been carried out to obtain rate constants for its bimolecular reaction with monogermane, GeH4. The reaction was studied in the gas-phase at 10 Torr total pressure in SF6 bath gas, at five temperatures in the range 295–553 K. The second order rate constants fitted the Arrhenius equation: log(k3/cm3 molecule−1 s−1) = (−9.88 ± 0.02)+(2.13 ± 0.17 kJ mol−1)/RTln10. Experiments at other pressures showed that these rate constants were unaffected by pressure. The data are consistent with a fast association process occuring (at 298 K) close to the collision rate. Although the probable initial product is silylgermane, H3SiGeH3, thermochemical considerations show that this will decompose to GeH2 + SiH4 under experimental conditions. This silylene insertion process is compared to others as well as to the insertion processes of methylene, CH2 and germylene, GeH2.
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