Slick silicon: A low-molecular-weight silane (C13H20Si, 204.38 g mol−1) with silicon-centered chirality is capable of discriminating enantiomeric rhodium–substrate complexes in dehydrogenative SiO coupling reactions with outstanding selectivity factors (see scheme, s=selectivity factor).
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Klare et al. (2007) studied this question.