Highly reactive nucleophilic silyloxydiene; cf. Danishefsky's diene. Prepn: J. Savard, P. Brassard, Tetrahedron Lett. 20, 4911 (1979); eidem, Tetrahedron 40, 3455 (1984). Synthetic applications: M. M. Midland, R. W. Koops, J. Org. Chem. 55, 5058 (1990); T. Ito et al., Tetrahedron Lett. 34, 6583 (1993); Q. Fan et al., Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2005, 3542; of polymer-supported derivatives: C. Pierres et al., Tetrahedron Lett. 44, 3645 (2003).