A Possible Chemical Pathway to the Synthesis of Polycyclic Molecular Skeletons

9 A Possible Chemical Pathway to the Synthesis of of Polycyclic Molecular Skeletons 

A number of carborundanes, each of which contains six or more Si atoms, has been isolated through systematic separation of the pyrolysis products of SiMe4 by HPLC [37, 44]. These compounds in particular can be understood in terms of stepwise addition of carbon bridged silicon atoms into the molecular skeleton. To date, the 

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