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catalyst precursors but also to serve as a silylation reagent for
nickel(II) s-aryl species. Further application of Si–Me4-DHP as
a silylating reagent to transition metals is ongoing in our
laboratory.
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Conflicts of interest
The authors declare no conict of interest.
Acknowledgements
We thank Mr Shunsuke Kato for the initial experimental results.
Y. U. thanks the nancial support by the JSPS Research Fellow-
ships for Young Scientists. This work was supported by JSPS
KAKENHI Grant No. JP26708012 (Grant-in-Aid for Young
Scientist (A)) to H. T. and JP15H05808 (Precisely Designed
Catalysis with Customized Scaffolding) to K. M.
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