Potassium 2, 6-disilapiperidide, readily prepared from 2, 2, 6, 6-tetrametyly-2, 6-disilapiperidine and potassium hydride, can be smoothly N-alkylated with alkyl halides to give the corresponding primary amines after acid hydrolysis.
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Hosomi et al. (1988) studied this question.