The reactions of the dithienodisilacyclohexadiene derivative (1) with diphenylacetylene, dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate, and phenylacetylene in the presence of a palladium catalyst at 150 °C afforded the respective adducts 2-4, arising from insertion of a triple bond of the alkynes into the silicon-silicon bond of 1, together with a small amount of the oxygen-insertion product 5, derived from oxidation of the silicon-silicon bond of 1 by molecular oxygen. The oxidation reaction of 1 with trimethylamine N-oxide cleanly produced 5 in high yield. The absorption and emission maxima of 2-5 were markedly blueshifted from those of 1. The optical band gaps taken from the absorption spectra of 2-5 agreed very closely with the HOMO-LUMO energy gaps of the model compounds (6-8) derived from MO calculations, at the level of B3LYP/6-31+G(dp). The structures of adducts 2 and 3 were determined by single-crystal X-ray crystallography.
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