Chlorotrimethylsilane → 1,3-Cyclopentadiene, (trimethylsilyl)-

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11 g of trimethylsilyl chloride was dissolved in 30 mol of well dried tetrahydrofuran in a 300 ml flask whose inside had been substituted by nitrogen, and the obtained solution was cooled to −78° C. 100 ml of a tetrahydrofuran solution (2.0 mol/l) of cyclopentadienyl sodium was added dropwise to the above solution in a stream of nitrogen over 1 hour. The solution was stirred at −78° C. for 1 hour and returned to room temperature over 6 hours. A salt precipitated in the mixture solution was removed by filtration in a nitrogen atmosphere, and the residual solution was distilled to obtain 8 g of trimethylsilyl cyclopentadiene.

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