Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Disilane is a chemical compound with chemical formula Si2H6 that was identified in 1902 by Henri Moissan and Samuel Smiles (1877–1953). Moissan and Smiles reported disilane as being among the products formed by the action of dilute acids on metal silicides. Although these reactions had been previously investigated by Friedrich Woehler and Heinrich Buff between 1857 and 1858 Moissan and Smiles were the first to explicitly identify disilane. They referred to disilane as silicoethane.
