Reasons for the lack of success with these reductions could be ascribed to the reducing power of the reagents employed and also the incompatibility of the ligand systems with reductive chemistry, owing to the facile elimination of potassium amide by-products and the propensity of silylamide ligands to undergo facile degradations via intra-and intermolecular C-H activation. Additionally, the ligands used in this work display various degrees of flexibility, which can affect the energy profile of the reductions and stability of the resultant reduced species. The stabilization of dianionic complexes as a result of these reductions (e.g.