“…The compound has very poor solubility in solvents such as chloroform, THF, benzene, toluene, and acetonitrile. In DMSO it undergoes dissociation and formation of a DMSO‐solvated silicon complex,6s that is [L 1 2 Si(DMSO) 2 ] 2+ , thus it is soluble in [D 6 ]DMSO and produces the same set of NMR signals as L 1 2 Si(OTf) 2 does, which thus forms the same complex in DMSO solution. 1 H NMR (400 MHz, [D 6 ]DMSO): δ =0.98 (t, 3 J (H,H)=7.7 Hz, 6 H, CH 2 C H 3 ), 2.18 (s, 6 H, CH 3 ), 2.22 (s, 6 H, CH 3 ), 2.39 (q, 3 J (H,H)=7.7 Hz, 4 H, C H 2 CH 3 ), 7.22 (d, 7.1 Hz, 2 H, Si(oPh)), 7.39 (m, 2 H, Si(mPh)), 7.49 (m, 1 H, Si(pPh)), 7.73 (m, 4 H, mPh L ), 7.83 (m, 2 H, pPh L ), 8.07 ppm (d, 7.4 Hz, 4 H, oPh L ); 13 C NMR (100.1 MHz, [D 6 ]DMSO): δ =12.4, 13.3, 13.9, 16.9 (alkyl), 34 (broad multiplet, Si‐coordinated [D 6 ]DMSO), 129.1, 129.9, 130.1, 133.8, 133.9, 137.5, 139.0, 158.9, 168.5 ppm (CO); 29 Si NMR (79,5 MHz, [D 6 ]DMSO): δ =−175.5 ppm.…”