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One of the possible pathways for the catalytic decomposition of 1,1,3,3-tetramethyl-1,3-disilacyclobutane in the presence of zirconium tetrachloride is the insertion of a dimethylsilaethylene intermediate into the ring.
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Translated from Izvestiya Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 8, pp. 1917–1919, August, 1985.
The authors express their gratitude to A. I. Mikaya for taking the mass spectra.
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Vdovin, V.M., Bespalova, N.B. & Sergeeva, M.B. Transformations of 1,1,3,3-tetramethyl-1,3-disilacyclobutane in the presence of zirconium tetrachloride. Russ Chem Bull 34, 1768–1769 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00948537
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