A comprehensive, up-to-date reference to synthetic applications of organosilicon chemistry!

This book presents a much-needed overview of silicon chemistry, allowing fundamental and applied scientists to take full advantage of progress made within and outside their primary fields of expertise.

Clear, concise coverage includes:

• The mechanistic basis for the development of new silicon-based reactions
• Formation and cleavage of silane reagents and functional siliconheteroatom compounds
• Silicones, silica, polysilanes, and other silicon-containing polymers
• Properties of molecules containing silicon, including bioactivity
• Methods for the preparation of Si-C compounds
• Silicon in organic synthesis
• An extensive functional group index for easy access to functional group transformations
• Plus much more!

With an emphasis on the preparation and reactivity of silicon compounds in organic, organometallic, and polymer chemistry, the author examines a broad range of useful topics—from mechanisms to syntheses of and syntheses using different organofunctional silanes. Numerous schemes as well as up-to-date examples from academia and industry will help readers to solve current synthetic problems and explore ideas for future research.

Contents

1. Fundamentals of Silicon Reactivity: Reactive Intermediates and Reaction Mechanisms
   • Organosilanes: Where to Find Them, What to Call Them, How to Detect Them
   • Atomic and Molecular Properties of Silicon
   • Silicon-Based Reactive Intermediates
   • Extracoordination at Silicon
   • Reaction Mechanisms for Nucleophilic Substitution at Silicon

2. The Formation and Cleavage of Non-Carbon Bonds to Silicon: Applications in Organic and Polymer Chemistry
   • Silicon and Transition Metal Chemistry
   • Hydrosilanes as Reducing Agents
   • Replacing H with Si: Silicon-Based Reagents
   • Silicones
   • Siloxanes Based on T and Q Units
   • Other Silicon-Containing Polymers

3. The Formation and Cleavage of Silicon-Carbon Bonds: Applications in Organic Synthesis
   • Formation of Si-C Bonds: The Synthesis of Functional Organosilanes
   • Silicon in a Biological Environment
   • Silicon in the Organic World: Electronic Effects of Silyl Groups
   • Rearrangements
   • Cleavage of Si-C Bonds

Indices of Functional Group Transformations
Subject Index

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