Alkoxides silanols

The anionic polymerization of cyclic siloxanes can be initiated by alkali metal hydroxides, alkyls, and alkoxides, silanolates such as potassium trimethylsilanoate, (CH3)3SiOK, and other bases. Both initiation... 

A number of compounds of the types RBiY2 or R2BiY, where Y is an anionic group other than halogen, have been prepared by the reaction of a dihalo- or halobismuthine with a lithium, sodium, potassium, ammonium, silver, or lead alkoxide (120,121), amide (122,123), a2ide (124,125), carboxylate (121,126), cyanide (125,127), dithiocarbamate (128,129), mercaptide (130,131), nitrate (108), phenoxide (120), selenocyanate (125), silanolate (132), thiocyanate (125,127), or xanthate (133). Dialkyl- and diaryUialobismuthines can also be readily converted to secondary bismuthides by treatment with an alkali metal (50,105,134) ... 

The more hindered alkoxide Ti(OiPr)4 was used as the precursor complex with surface silanols of an amorphous silica support this reaction is reported to lead to the same environment of Ti as in TS-1, but only when the reaction is carried in cyclohexanol as the solvent. Epoxidation of octene, cyclohexenol, and norbornene with FI202 in phenylethanol leads to 95-98% epoxide selectivity.147... 

The polarity of the Al-C bond allows easy derivatization of the five-coordinate aluminum alkyls by alkane elimination (Figure 9). For example, Salen aluminum alkyls LAlMe could be converted to dimeric or polymeric Salen aluminum phosphinates [LAl 02P(H)Ph ] 98 (n = 2 or oo, depending on the Salen ligand backbone)98,99 by reaction with phenyl phosphinic acid, Salen aluminum siloxides LA10SiPh3 by reaction with triphenyl silanol,96 or Salen aluminum alkoxides LAIOR by reaction with an alcohol.100... 

Zirconium and hafnium tetraalkoxides are highly reactive compounds. They react with water, alcohols, silanols, hydrogen halides, acetyl halides, certain Lewis bases, aryl isocyanates and other metal alkoxides. With chelating hydroxylic compounds HL, such as j8-diketones, carboxylic acids and Schiff bases, they give complexes of the type ML (OR)4 these reactions are discussed in the sections dealing with the chelating ligand. 

Many alkoxides have been prepared from chromocene in THF or hydrocarbons (equation 14). Only partial replacement of cyclopent dienyl by R occurs with Me3COH and silanols (equation (15)). 

Alkoxide-Type Initiators. Using the guide that an appropriate initiator should have approximately the same structure and reactivity as the propagating anionic species (see Table 1), alkoxide, thioalkoxide, carboxylate, and silanolate salts would be expected to be useful initiators for the anionic polymerization of epoxides, thiiranes, lactones, and siloxanes, respectively (106—108). Thus low molecular weight poly(ethylene oxide) can be prepared... 

Interestingly, cyclopropane 245 (R = SPh) is also formed when 243 is combined with (trimethylsilyl)oxirane. In this case, the necessary alkene (phenylthioethylene) is provided by silanolate elimination from the alkoxide arising from regiospecific ring-opening of the oxirane by thiophenolate (equation 82)142. 

The preparation and structures of siloxanediol derivatives has been reviewed29,184 but some representative examples of reactions are given below. Two general methods have been used to make metal siloxides from silanols one involves the direct reaction of a silanol with the metal derivative, usually an amide, alkoxide, halide or alkyl (to give amine, alcohol, HX or alkane byproducts respectively), while the second involves the preparation of a simple alkali metal derivative which can then be used as a siloxide transfer reagent for further synthesis. Only the direct route will be considered here. Two of the most useful siloxide transfer species, (MOPh2Si)20 (M = Li or Na), are... 

During hydrolytic work up the intermediate magnesium alkoxides, which at low temperature do not eliminate silanolate, are converted into the alkohols la-lc [Eq. 2], la-lc are stable, crystalline, waxy solids [6],... 

The siloxides of aluminum can be prepared in the same maimer as the alkoxides and exhibit similar stractural features. Interest in these compounds arose from a desire for sol-gel or polymeric precursors for aluminosilicates. Unfortunately, these compounds extensively hydrolyze, losing most of the silicon as the silanol. However, the investigation of the hydrolysis of (Et3SiO)3Al has generated considerable insight into the stracture and composition of aUcoxy- and siloxy-substitutedalumoxanepolymers, (ROAIO) These macromolecules are now believed to have a structure related to that of boehmite. 

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