M. Saito et al., A NEW METHOD FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF STANNYLENES - EXHAUSTIVE DESULFURIZATION OF TETRATHIASTANNOLANES, Chemistry Letters, (4), 1996, pp. 265-266
Exhaustive desulfurization of overcrowded diaryl-substituted 1,2,3,4,5
-tetrathiastannolanes having a 2,4,6-tris[bis(trimethylsilyl)methyl]ph
enyl (Tbt) group on the tin atom resulted in the formation of the corr
esponding kinetically stabilized diaryl-stannylenes, the formation of
which was confirmed by the characteristic electronic absorptions attri
butable to the n-p transitions of stannylene, and by the chemical trap
ping by 2,3-dimethyl-1,3-butadiene.