The hydrolysis of methylchlorosilanes

Hydrolysis of dimethyldichlorosilane is of course more complex, and gives a range of products. The first step 

Normally a mixture of cyclic (exemplified above by cyclic tetramer ) and linear oligomers is obtained containing between three and nine dimethyl-siloxane (Me2SiO) groups in each unit. 

Since methanol can readily be converted to methyl chloride, the chlorine 

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