Abstract
A computationally‐guided synthetic route to the free silanide derived from tris(3‐methylindol‐2‐yl)methane ((tmim)Si‐) is reported: nucleophilic substitution on the Si(II) precursor Idipp‐‐>SiCl2 (Idipp = 2,3‐dihydro‐1,3‐bis(2,6‐diisopropylphenyl)‐1H‐imidazol‐2‐ylidene). This approach circumvents the need for strained tetrahedral silanes as synthetic intermediates. Computational investigations show that the electron‐donating properties of (tmim)Si‐ are close to those of
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