TY - JOUR A1 - Lazareva, Nataliya F. A1 - Shainyan, Bagrat A. A1 - Kleinpeter, Erich T1 - 4-Alkyl-2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1,4,2,6-oxaazadisilinanes : synthesis, structure, and conformational analysis N2 - 4-Alkyl-2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1,4,2,6-oxaazadisilinanes RN[CH2Si(Me)2]2O [R = Me (1), i-Pr (2)] were synthesized by two methods which provided good yields up to 84%. Low temperature NMR study of compounds (1) and (2) revealed a frozen ring inversion with the energy barriers of 8.5 and 7.7 kcal/mol at 163 and 143 K, respectively, which is substantially lower than that for their carbon analog, N-methylmorpholine. DFT calculations performed on the example of molecule (1) showed that N-Meax conformer to exist in the sofa conformation with the coplanar fragment C-Si-O-Si-C, and its N-Meeq conformer in a flattened chair conformation. Y1 - 2010 UR - http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/jhome/4569 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/Poc.1605 SN - 0894-3230 ER -