Do Silylenes Always Dimerize to Disilenes? Novel Silylene Dimers with Unusual Structures

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 117, Issue 19, 1995, Pages 5363-5364

  Apeloig, Yitzhak ^a   Müller, Thomas ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

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EID: 11944263281     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja00124a021     Document Type: Article

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