ISSN 1017-2548(Print)
ISSN 2234-8530(Online)
Volume 31, Number 1
JKCSEZ 31(1)
February 20, 1987 

Trimethyl-and triphenyl-metal (IVA) methoxides were reacted with phenylisocyanate at various temperatures. Even at 100℃, methyltrimethylsilyl ether, methyltriphenylsilyl ether and triphenyltin methoxide produced the cyclic dimer of phenylisocyanate, N,N'-diphenyluretidine-2,4-dione. But the other compounds produced only the cyclic trimer of phenylisocyanate, phenylisocyanurate. And above 200℃, considerable amounts of diphenylcarbodiimide was formed by all the organometallic compounds. From these results, the mechanism of cyclic polymerization of phenylisocyanate by the organometal catalysts, and the correlation of substituents with the reactivity were discussed.