 It is also not particularly regioselective, so starting materials containing substituted benzene would result in a mixture of products.Some methods used to produce polysilanes are polymerization of masked dislenes,
electroreduction of dichlorosilanes,
1H and 29Si NMR spectroscopy can sometimes be used to help identify and characterize products from these reactions.Infrared spectroscopy may also be useful as it can indicate whether or not the product is a tertiary silane.