Ai. Almansour et al., PREDOMINANCE OF UNREARRANGED PRODUCTS IN THE REACTIONS OF THE IODIDE (ME(3)SI)(3)CSI(CD3)(2)I WITH SILVER SALTS, AND ITS MECHANISTIC IMPLICATIONS, Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, (6), 1995, pp. 705-706
In the title reactions, unrearranged products (Me(3)Si)(3)C[Si(CD3)(2)
Y] usually predominate over their rearranged isomers (Me(3)Si)(2)C[Si(
CD3)(2)Me](SiMe(2)Y), revealing the inadequacy of the simplest mechani
stic picture in which the two bridged silicon centres in a methyl-brid
ged cationic intermediate are equally available for attachment of a nu
cleophile.