Compound 2

1,3-Diisopropyl-4,5-dimethylimidazol-2-ylidene

From: Equilibrium between a cyclotrisilene and an isolable base adduct of a disilenyl silylene

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InChIKey LZQXDFLELAJUBV-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Synthetic procedure: See article for the definitive version of this procedure and for full experimental details.

Compound 2 was prepared according to a literature procedure (Leszczyńska, K. et al. Reversible base coordination to a disilene. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 51, 6785–6788 (2012))