Silylenes are silicon analogues of carbenes and exist with neutral divalent silicon atoms. The first stable N-heterocyclic silylene (NHSi) was reported byWest et al., in 1994. Since then, many stable NHSis d,3 and other silylenes have been isolated. The reactivity pattern of NHSis is quite comparable with that of the N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs), where the latter led to many applications in c...
