“…A great variety of complexes of metals with bipyridine are known, and their chemistry has been widely explored (Pilipenko et al, 1972;Constable, 1989;Happ et al, 2012). Similar complexes of 2,2′ -bipyridine (bipy) with silicon halides have been prepared, e.g., with Ph 3 SiX (X = Br, I) (Corey and West, 1963); with RSiCl 3 (Kummer et al, 1990); with perhalodisilanes Si 2 X 6 (X = F, Cl, Br), mixed methylhalodisilanes (Si 2 Me n X 6-n , X = Cl, I; n = 2, 3) and Si 3 Cl 8 (Kummer et al, 1979); with substituted iodides XYSiI 2 (X, Y = Cl, I, Me, H, Ph) (Kummer et al, 1977); and with Cl 3 SiOSiCl 3 (Kummer et al, 1987).…”