Method for hydrogenating halogen-substituted silicon compounds

摘要

Halogen-substituted silicon compounds are hydrogenated by reaction with hydrogen in a chloroaluminate salt melt as a reaction medium containing a finely divided metal capable of forming interstitial hydrides which are suspended in the melt, the finely divided interstitial metal hydrides being formed in situ in the melt by reduction of a metal halide with an electropositive element as a halogen acceptor I selected from the group consisting of magnesium, calcium and aluminum.