Disubstituted palladium catalysts for reacting organic halides with disilanes

摘要

A process is described for reacting organic halides with disilanes to form monosilanes. The process uses disubstituted palladium compounds as catalysts. This process is especially useful for reacting alkenyl chlorides, such as allyl chloride, with disilanes to form monosilanes having alkenyl substitution. Our process is also useful for converting the high-boiling disilane fraction, resulting from the direct process for forming organosilanes, into more useful monosilanes.