“…The addition reactions of other classes of carbonyl compounds have been investigated, with tetramesityldisilene being used as a representative disilene. Tetramesityldisilene is unreactive toward most esters but has been found to react with methyl furoate [S], diphenylketene [6], dimethylketene [6], and heptafluorobutyryl chloride [61 to give 2,3-disilaoxetanes as well. With the 1,2-diketone, benzil, disilenes undergo a formal [2 or the aromatic ketone acts as the four-electron component, have also been obtained [9,10].…”