It has been shown that 1-hydrosilatrane reacts with o-difluoromethoxybenzal
doxime in refluxing xylene without any catalyst affording a new type of sil
atranes - iminoxysilatrane. The first representative of them o-difluorometh
oxybenzylideniminoxysilatrene (3) has been characterized by IR, H-1, C-13,
F-19 and Si-29 NMR spectroscopy, mass-spectrometry, elemental and X-ray ana
lyses. X-Ray crystallographic study indicates the presence of two independe
nt molecules in the crystal with N-->Si bond length of 2.073(6) and 2.088(5
) Angstrom.