Silicon-carbon bond structure

The same type of reaction has been used just recently by Sonnek and coworkers [17] to get access to di(meth)acrylate structures added to siloxanes via hydrolytically stable silicon-carbon bond formation. 2-Heptamethyltrisiloxanylbut-2-en-l,4-diylbismethacrylate is accordingly prepared in 90 % yield by hydrosilylation of the bismethacrylate of 2-butyne-l,4-diol. 

The IR spectrum reveals a trans structure for the inuninium salt. The formation of benzoylsilane proceeds with complete retention of configuration at silicon and can be explained by both direct formation of a silicon-carbon bond (a) and formation of a silyloxycarbene (b) . However, cis elimination (a) does not appear to be favored in a trans structure Scheme 9) ... 

Recent variable-temperature ESR (electron spin resonance) studies have determined that the early persistent radicals produced from symmetrical dialkylpol-ysilanes upon photolysis appear to have the structure -(-SiR2SiRSiR24 n. Although these radicals could conceivably be produced by simple silicon-carbon bond homolysis, supporting studies indicate that a more complex pathway to these radicals is involved. McKinley, A. J. Karatsu, T. Wallraff, G. M. Miller, R. D. Sooriyakumaran, R. Michl, J. Organomet allies 1988, 7, 2569. 

C linkages and are hydrolytically unstable others do not contain a silicone-carbon bond and are stable. In general, higher-viscosity silicone copolymers are more efficient and wiU provide foams with finer cell structures. Surfactants are used at the 0.5% to 1% level in rigid urethane foams. With too little silicone foam, cell structure is large. Too much silicone does not affect the foam properties, but is wasteful. There is no known health hazard with the use of silicones (20). 

In general, these organomodified trisiloxanes are based on a common structural principle They consist of a lyophobic silicone backbone containing an alkyl spacer group connected by a silicon-carbon bond. The hydrophilic moiety, which can be either ionic or nonionic, is attached to the alkyl spacer... 

The preference of zinc ester enolates for carbon-bonded structures and zinc ketone enolates for oxygen-bonded structures is reminiscent of the situation with silicon. A carbon-bonded structure (9) is the thermodynamically more stable form for the trimethylsilyl derivatives of esters, while the oxygen-bonded structure (10) is the more stable form for ketone derivatives. This has been attributed to the greater resonance stability of ester compared to ketone carbonyls.32... 

The polar nature of the silicon-carbon bond is reflected in the fact that d(Si=C) in 8 is significantly shorter than the sum of the double-bond radii of the participant atoms (1.74 A)19. The charge distribution in the Si=C bond leads to the ability of silene 8 to form surprisingly stable adducts with weak Lewis bases, in which the unsaturated silicon atom is coordinated. An X-ray structure is available for the adduct 9 with THF67. As may... 

The structure of Ti3SiC2 is shown in Fig. 22. The titanium and silicon atoms are close packed with the stacking sequence (hhhc)2. Thus, Ti3SiC2 adopts a structure typical for a metal-rich carbide. The titanium octahedra are filled by carbon atoms, and these Ti C octahedra are condensed via common edges, forming double layers which are separated by the silicon atoms. No silicon-carbon bonds are observed. In compounds of similar composition Si—C bonds (0.193nm) have been found only in U3Si2C2 [102]. 

In the second chapter, silicon is used as an element that does not take part in complex conjugated structures built of aromatic subunits. Instead, due to the high reactivity of its functional groups and stability of silicon-carbon bonds, silicon serves as a skeleton holding those laced structures it becomes the element via which they interact with the surface and themselves. 

The alkenylsilane 98 reacts with iodine to afford the sUalactone 99, with elimination of iodomethane, in good yield (Fig. 35) [81]. This unexpected process involves the mild oxidative cleavage of a silicon-carbon bond which should otherwise be stable. The silicon-carbon bond is activated by hypervalency induced by intramolecular coordination of the carbonyl oxygen to the silicon atom. This is supported by the observation that the O-C braid length is shorter than that of the sum of the van der Waals radii (3.35 A) in the X-ray crystal structure analysis of 98. The TBP value [82] is 20%, meaning that it is not a perfect trigonal bipyramidal structure but is on the way... 

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