The first magnesium, copper and zinc disilenides were prepared via transmetallation reactions of a lithium disilenide and structurally characterised. The copper and zinc derivatives show red-shifted UV/vis absorptions due to admixture of metal d-orbitals to the highest occupied molecular orbital.
M. J. Cowley, K. Abersfelder, A. J. P. White, M. Majumdar and D. Scheschkewitz, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 6595 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC33047D
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