• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• v.22 no.11
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• pp.1202-1206
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• 2001

Irradiation of 1-(o-hydroxyphenyl)-2-pentamethyldisilanylethyne 1 in a concentrated benzene solution has provided photodimer product 7 along with other reported photoproducts. Irradiation of 1 in methanol yields 1-(o-hydroxyphenyl)-2-trimethylsilylethyne 2 and its reduction product 13, via silacyclopropene intermediate 10, and the reduction product 8 and two methanol addition products, 11 and 12, via o-hydroxyphenylethyne. Photolysis of 1 with acetone in deaerated methylene chloride affords site specific and regioselective 1 : 1 adduct 16 via silacyclopropene intermediate 10.