Silicon hydrogen halides

Halogens, halides. Hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen chloride, chlorine, fluorine, silicon tetrafluoride... 

Because carbon bonds so readily with itself, there are many hydrocarbons (see Chapter 18). Silicon forms a much smaller number of compounds with hydrogen, called the silanes. The simplest silane is silane itself, SiH4, the analog of methane. Silane is formed by the action of lithium aluminum hydride on silicon halides in ether ... 

The preparation of silicon hydrides became much easier in 1947149, when it was found that halides can be reduced with LiAlH4 and that higher silicon halides can also be reduced to the corresponding hydrogen compounds ... 

Zinc may be used in place of aluminum in a similar reaction. The method also may be used for the vapor-phase hydrogenation of organo-silicon halides such as methyltrichlorosilane ... 

Silastannathianes containing the unit SiSSn can be prepared from the reaction of a mixture of tin halide and silicon halide with hydrogen sulfide in the presence of an amine, and the corresponding selenium and tellurium compounds from a similar reaction using lithium selenide or lithium telluride.14... 

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