This report demonstrates that immobilized trimethylsilane is an appropriate reference standard for MASSCP-13C NMR studies of reagents immobilized on silica gel. An example is presented which shows that the immobilized trimethylsilane exhibits many of the advantages as a reference for these solid samples as does tetramethylsilane for liquid samples. It is further shown that pure solids may interact with an immobilized phase and produce significant spectral changes and thus are not appropriate as reference standards.