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Abstract The intermolecular dehydrogenative coupling of 1,1,1,3,5,5,5-heptamethyltrisiloxane with arenes proceeded in the presence of a catalytic amount of platinum complexes prepared in situ from PtCl2 and hydrotris(pyrazolyl)borate derivatives.
Murata et al. (Sat,) studied this question.