silabenzene
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thumb|right|300px|Structures of some unstable silabenzenes
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Synthesis
- Properties and reactions
- Hexasilabenzene
- See also
- References
thumb|right|300px|Structures of some unstable silabenzenes
A silabenzene is a heteroaromatic compound containing one or more silicon atoms instead of carbon atoms in benzene. A single substitution gives silabenzene proper; additional substitutions give a disilabenzene (3 theoretical isomers), trisilabenzene (3 isomers), etc.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “silabenzene” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.