Skeletal Rearrangements of Deprotonated Organosilanes in the Gas Phase. Silicon-Oxygen Bond Formation

Abstract

Trimethylsilyl anions containing additional alkoxy, ketone or carboxylic acid funtionality undergo a variety of rearrangement reactions upon collisional activation. The most common are those which involve production of Si -O bonds, either by formation of Me₃SiO^- or by elimination of Me₃SiOH.