Trapping of ammonium sila-ylide with pentaphenylfulvene or dibenzofulvene

Abstract

The thermolysis of a pentacoordinate fluorodisilane bearing an 8-(dimethylamino)-1-naphthyl group in the presence of 2,3,4,5,6-pentaphenylfulvene or 14-phenyldibenzofulvene affords a silylene-fulvene adduct bearing a zwitterionic structure attributable to the silaylide, but it spontaneously undergoes subsequent intramolecular cyclization reaction between the silicon atom and the aromatic carbon atom in the fulvene moiety followed by a sigmatropic proton migration to form a neutral silicon-containing six- or five-membered ring product.