The successful synthesis of acyclic silylenes that are isolable at ambient temperature offers striking new opportunities to use stable silylenes for the activation of important small molecules such as dihydrogen and alkanes — hitherto almost completely the domain of transition metals.
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Driess, M. Breaking the limits with silylenes. Nature Chem 4, 525–526 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.1387
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