Royal Society of Chemistry, Chemical Communications, 21(47), p. 6162, 2011
DOI: 10.1039/c1cc11697e
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A donor-functionalized, silyl-substituted pentadienyllithium has been synthesized and characterized by crystallography and NMR spectroscopy. The pentadienyl negative charge was found to be partially localized, which DFT revealed to be due to the polarizing power of the lithium cation.