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Inside Back Cover: An Isolable Silicon Dicarbonate Complex from Carbon Dioxide Activation with a Silylone (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 7/2017)
Author(s) -
Burchert Alexander,
Yao Shenglai,
Müller Robert,
Schattenberg Caspar,
Xiong Yun,
Kaupp Martin,
Driess Matthias
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201700227
Subject(s) - carbene , chemistry , silicon , carbon dioxide , ligand (biochemistry) , carbon fibers , polymer chemistry , cover (algebra) , int , molecule , medicinal chemistry , stereochemistry , organic chemistry , materials science , catalysis , receptor , biochemistry , composite number , computer science , composite material , operating system , mechanical engineering , engineering
Husky zero‐valent silicon stabilized by a bis‐N‐heterocyclic carbene ligand is capable to reduce CO 2 to CO without the slightest effort to form the respective SiO and SiO 2 complexes as reactive intermediates. The SiO 2 complex reacts rapidly with two molecules CO 2 to form the corresponding silicon dicarbonate complex. In their Communication on page 1894 ff., M. Kaupp, M. Driess et al. describe the synthesis of the latter which results from facile transformation of a silylone in the presence of CO 2 .