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Science 14 September 1984:
Vol. 225. no. 4667, pp. 1109 - 1114
DOI: 10.1126/science.225.4667.1109
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Isolable Compounds Containing a Silicon-Silicon Double Bond

Robert West 1

1 Professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison 53706.

After 70 years of unsuccessful attempts, several stable disilene—compounds with double bonds between silicon atoms—have now been made. The silicon-silicon double bond resembles in many ways the well-known carbon-carbon double bond of organic chemistry. However, striking dissimilarities are also found between disilenes and alkenes in both their structures and chemical reactions.

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