Organosilicon compounds, ozone

At last, some workers focused their studies on organosilicon compounds [73-82]. Schemes 19 and 20 summarize the action of ozone on silanes, tetra-... 

The reaction of ozone with saturated hydrocarbons has been a subject of renewed interest in recent years. Two papers in this section are concerned with this subject, while a third deals with the analogous reaction of organosilicon compounds. These studies are of both synthetic and mechanistic importance and are perhaps most closely associated with the general theme of this symposium since they inevitably involve the question of their relationship to autoxidation processes. The question of the mechanism of these saturated hydrocarbon-ozone reactions is presently an active subject with ionic, free radical, and insertion processes all being considered. 

VMS does not contribute to ozone or smog formation in the lower atmosphere and the US Environmental Protection Agency has not included organosilicones in its regulations concerning volatile organic compounds in the atmosphere. 

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