Keywords: compounds of hexacoordinated silicon, hypervalency, quantum-chemical calculations, electron density distribution, X-ray structural investigation, synthesis.Neutral bis-chelated (LCH 2 ) 2 MHal 2 which contain a bidentate, monoionic, C,X-coordinated LCH 2 ligands (X = N, O) are quite well investigated compounds of hexacoordinated germanium and tin [1]. According to X-ray analysis the majority of them in the solid phase have a close to octahedral configuration with carbon atoms in trans and with the coordinated X and halogen atoms in cis positions relative to one another. At the same time their silicon analogs are virtually unstudied [2] and only a few examples of this type of compound with N→Si coordinated bis(8-dimethylamino-1-naphthyl)dichloro-and -difluorosilanes [3] and also (8-dimethylamino-1-naphthyl)(2-dimethylaminomethylphenyl)difluorosilanes [4] have been reported. In the case of the latter an X-ray investigation of the coordination about the Si atom has reported a doubly capped tetrahedron.We set out to attempt the preparation of neutral hexacoordinated dichlorosilanes (LCH 2 ) 2 SiCl 2 by treating trimethylsilyl (TMS) derivatives of five-, six-, and seven-membered lactams with bis(chloromethyl)dichlorosilane (ClCH 2 ) 2 SiCl 2 in the ratio 2 : 1 and obtained unstable, readily hydrolyzed materials. Treatment of the latter with Me 3 SiOTf or HgCl 2 under conditions which did not exclude access of the _______ * Dedicated to Prof. Edmunds Lukevics on the occasion of his 70th birthday __________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 A. N.