Hexamethyldisilane, 98+%, Thermo Scientific Chemicals

General References:

1. B.Beagley; J.J.Monaghan; T.G.Hewitt. Electron-diffraction studies of tetramethylsilane and hexamethyldisilane, and discussion of the lengths of Si-C bonds. Journal of Molecular Structure. 1971, 8, (4),401-411 
2. M.Simon; T.Lebrun; R.Martins; G.G.B. de Souza; I.Nenner; M.Lavollee; P.Morin. Multicoincidence mass spectrometry applied to hexamethyldisilane excited around the silicon 2p edge. J. Phys. Chem. 1993, 97, (20),5228-5237
3. Precursor of TMSLi, TMSNa and TMSK by cleavage with alkyllithiums or alkoxides. Reaction of the metallated derivatives with aryl halides gives aryltrimethylsilanes: J. Org. Chem., 42, 2654 (1977). The anion adds 1,4-to ɑß-enones to give ß-silyl ketones: J. Org. Chem., 41, 3063 (1976); Tetrahedron Lett., 24, 3497 (1983). The anion may also be used to deoxygenate secondary nitroalkanes (to ketoximes), nitrones (to imines), and heterocyclic N-oxides: J. Org. Chem., 64, 2211 (1999).
4. Also cleaved by TBAF to give the salt-free silyl anion, which adds to aldehydes to give, after acid hydrolysis, ɑ-hydroxy silanes: J. Org. Chem., 48, 912 (1983). TBAF also catalyzes the silylation of OH groups under very mild conditions: Tetrahedron Lett., 35, 8413 (1994). See Appendix 4.
5. Couples with aryl, benzyl or allyl halides in the presence of Tetrakis(triphenyl phosphine) palladium(0) , 10548, to give the corresponding silanes: J. Organomet. Chem., 148, 97 (1978); 225, 331 (1982).
6. Aryl and alkenyl nitriles undergo ipso-silylation-decyanation, catalyzed by Chloro(1,5-cyclooctadiene) rhodium(I) dimer, 10466, to give the corresponding trimethylsiliyl derivatives: J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 8152 (2006).