Silicon compounds recent research developments

Since the development of the first useful organosilicon compound, a silicon carbide precursor, by Yajima [11], there has been extensive research on the design of polymers which transform to silicon—containing ceramics upon pyrolysis. In recent years, progress has been made in the synthesis of polymeric precursors of silicon nitride. Seyferth and coworkers [12] developed a methylsilazane compound, basically an ammonolysis product of methyldichlorosilane, and reported the... 

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