G. Oddon et Mw. Hosseini, SILACROWN ETHERS - SYNTHESIS OF MACROCYCLIC DIPHENYLPOLYETHYLENEGLYCOL MONOSILINES AND DISILANES, Tetrahedron letters, 34(46), 1993, pp. 7413-7416
The synthesis of new mono- and disilacrown ethers ([k]O(l)Si(m): (k,l,
m) = (8,3,1); (11,4,1); (16,6,2); (22,8,2)) was achieved by reacting P
h2SiCl2 with HO-(CH2CH2O)n-H (n = 2, 3) in the presence of base. Varia
tion of the later revealed that cations could act as templates and thu
s orient the synthesis towards the mono- or the disilanes.