Can relief of ring-strain in a cyclopropylmethyllithium drive the Brook rearrangement?

α-Cyclopropyl-α-trialkylsilyl alkoxides were formed either by addition of cyclopropyllithiums to acylsilanes or by addition of organolithiums to a cyclopropylformylsilane. [1,2]-Brook rearrangement led to α-silyloxy organolithiums which on warming underwent cyclopropane ring opening and [1,5]-retro-Brook rearrangement to yield γ-silyl ketones. Despite the favourability of the cyclopropane ring opening, the Brook rearrangement still required the presence of an anion stabilising group to proceed. β-Silylketones were similarly formed by Brook–retro-Brook rearrangement on warming acylsilanes with a vinyllithium.