Organosilicon Chemistry. From Molecules to Materials

FASCINATING ORGANOSILICON COMPOUNDS; More Compelling Evidence that Silicon is Better Than Carbon: The Thermal Isomerization of Olefins to Carbenes (T. Barton, et al.); NMR and Quantum Chemical Characterization of Silicon-Substituted Carbocations (H.-U; Siehl, et al.); Matrix Isolation Studies of the Reactions of Silicon Atoms (G. Maier, et al.); Cycloaddition Reactions of Dimethylaminomethylsilylene with Dienes and Heterodienes (S. Meinel & J. Heinicke); Do Unsubstituted Silacyclobutadienes Exist?; (G. Maier, et al.); A Thermally Stable Silylene: Reactivity of Bis(amino)silylene Si[{N(CH2tBu)}2C6H4-1,2] (B. Gerhus, et al.); Pyrido [b]-1,3,2 2-diazasilole: The First Stable Unsymmetrical Silylene (A. Oprea & J. Heinicke); A New Route to Silaheterocycles: Heterobutadiene Cycloaddition (H. Karsch & P. Schl; ter); Base Coordination: A Way to Nucleophilic Silylenes?; (J. Belzner); Isoelectronic Replacement of Si by P+: A Comparative Study of the Structures of the Spirocyclic EII Compounds E[C(PMe2)2(X)]2(E = Si, Ge, Sn; X = PMe2, SiMe3) and a Novel Spirocyclic 10 e-Phosphorus Cation(PIII) P[C(PPh2)2(SiMe3)]2+ (H. Karsch & E. Witt); The Main Group Carbonyls RLi-CO and R2Si-CO: An Ab Initio Study (M. Tacke); Unprecedented Multistep Reactions of Decamethylsilicocene, (Me5C5)2Si:, with CO2, CS2, COS, RNCS (R = Me, Ph), with CF3CCCF3, and with HMn(CO)5 (P. Jutzi & D. Eikenberg); Rearrangement of Bis(hypersilyl)silylene and Related Compounds - An Unusual Way to Three-Membered Rings (K. Klinkhammer); Oxidation of Silenes and Silylenes: Matrix Isolation of Unusual Silicon Species (W. Sander, et al.); New Silaheterocycles: Formation and Properties (E. Kroke & M. Weidenbruch); Cycloaddition Reactions of 1, 1-Dichloro-2-neopentyl-1-silen with Monoterpenes (C.-R; Heikenwdlder & N. Auner); Silaspirocycles as Precursors for a 2-Silaallene (B. Goetze, et al.); Catalytic Carbon-Carbon Hydrogenation of Silicon-Functionalized Olefins (H.-U; Steinberger & N. Auner); Dieno- and Enophilicity of Sila-, Germa-, and Stannaethenes (N. Wiberg & S. Wagner); Iminosilanes and Silaamidides: Synthesis and Reactions (J. Niesmann, et al.); Metastable Compounds Containing Silicon-Phosphorous and Silicon-Arsenic Multiple Bonds: Syntheses, Structures and Reactivity (M. Driess, et al.); Silole and Germole Dianions and their Dilithium Derivatives - Are they Aromatic?; (T. M; ller, et al.) Supersilylmetal Compounds (N. Wiberg, et al.); Trialkylsilyl Substituted Homobimetallic Phosphanides of the Alkaline Earth Metals as well as Zinc (M. Westerhausen, et al.); The Tris(trimethylsilyl)silyl Substituent: An Old Hat With A New Feather (A. Heine, et al.); Functionalized Trisilylmethanes and Trisilylsilanes as Precursors of a New Class of Tripodal Amido Ligands (M. Schubart, et al.); Methoxy-bis[tris(trimethylsilyl)silyl]methane: The First Geminal Di(hypersilyl) Compound (E. Jeschke, et al.); The Use of the Tris(trimethylsilyl)silyl Group in Stabilization of Low Valent Gallium Co...