“…100 mL of dry benzene was irradiated with a 10-W low-pressure mercury lamp at room temperature for 12.5 h. The solvent benzene and the remaining methanol-dj were evaporated, and the residue (0.55 g) was chromatographed by using a 1.8 X 25 cm silica gel column which had been packed in hexane. The column was eluted with a 3:2 mixture of hexane and benzene to give 30 mg (5 wt %, Mw 1000) of the product and then eluted with THF to give 0.456 g (83 wt %, Mw 1400) of the product: Mw 1000; NMR 0.51-0.70 (m, MeSi), 1.03-1.42 (m, EtSi), 3.52 (s, CH30), 4.73 (m, HSi), 7.65 (br s, ring protons).…”