Ms. Loft et al., ENHANCED LABILITY OF ALPHA-SILYL GROUPS IN THIOPHENETRICARBONYLCHROMIUM(0) COMPLEXES, Journal of the Chemical Society. Perkin transactions. I, (2), 1995, pp. 105-109
Deprotonation of 2-(trialkylsilyl) -5-methylthiophenetricarbonylchromi
um(0) complexes 8a-e with Bu(t)Li resulted in intermolecular silyl tra
nsfer reactions which generated, inter alia, yl-3(trialkylsilyl)thioph
enetricarbonylchromium(0) 9 and kylsilyl)-2-methylthiophenetricarbonyl
chromium(0). The bulky silanes 8d, a were stable under these condition
s.