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The origin of the different reactivities of carbenes and silylenes has been discussed. Molecular orbital calculations have been carried out in order to estimate the effects of substituents on the singlet-triplet splittings ΔE ST in these molecules. The data ofab initio calculations have been used to establish the linear correlation between ΔE ST values for carbenes and silylenes. Both qualitative and quantitative appraisals of the applicability of the semiempirical MNDO method to calculations of ΔE ST values for carbenes and silylenes have been derived. ΔE ST values for a large number of substituted carbenes and silylenes have been computed by the PM3 method, one of the latest versions of the MNDO approach (Ref. 14).
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Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk. Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 6, pp. 1006–1008, June, 1994.
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Abronin, I.A., Avdyukhina, N.A., Krutii, V.N. et al. Quantum-chemical calculations of the electronic structure and reactivity of silylenes. Russ Chem Bull 43, 941–943 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01558052
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