Volume 521
Main Index

Issues 1-2, Pages 1-433 (23 August 1996)

Editorial Board Page iii

Editorial note Page ix Colin Eaborn

Preface (English and French) Pages xi-xv Joël Moreau

Poly(silylenemethylenes) — a novel class of organosilicon polymers Pages 1-10 L. V. Interrante, Q. Liu, I. Rushkin, Q. Shen

Silyl substitution as an aid in polymerization reactions: oxidative coupling of silylthiophene, a route to highly conjugated polythiophene Pages 11-19 Jean-Pierre Lère-Porte, Joël J. E. Moreau, Jean-Louis Sauvajol

Ring-opening polymerization of nitrogen-containing cyclic organosilicon monomers Pages 21-27 M. Bouquey, C. Brochon, S. Bruzaud, A-F. Mingotaud, M. Schappacher, A. Soum

Synthesis and structure of 1,6-diaza-2,2-dimethoxy-2-silacyclooctane Pages 29-31 Wolfgang Ziche, Burkhard Ziemer, Peter John, Johann Weis, Norbert Auner

Cobalt deposition in porous silicon by chemical vapour infiltration and deposition; the effects of precursor instability Pages 33-37 B. J. Aylett, L. G. Earwaker, K. Forcey, T. Giaddui, I. S. Harding

Zinc silanethiolates: synthesis and properties. Crystal structures of bis(tri-tert-butoxysilanethiolato)(acetonitrile)zinc(II) and bis(tri-tert-butoxysilanethiolato)(bipyridine)zinc(II) Pages 39-49 Barbara Becker, Krzysztof Radacki, Wiesaw Wojnowski

Interactions in crystals CX. The structure of 9,10-bis(diisopropylsilyl) anthracene and of its “naked” radical anion Pages 51-63 Hans Bock, Manssur Ansari, Norbert Nagel, Rodney F. C. Claridge

Hydrosilane cleavage reactions accelerated by tartaric acid and dimethyl sulphoxide Pages 65-74 Michael J. Roth, Michael A. Brook, Helen B. Penny

Reactions of symmetrical and unsymmetrical disilanes in the presence of Cp2MCl2/nBuLi (M = Ti, Zr, Hf) Pages 75-91 J. Y. Corey, S. M. Rooney

Gas phase studies of silacyclobutanes: recent developments employing triple quadrupole detection Pages 93-98 Robert Damrauer, Joseph A. Hankin

Synthesis of disilylmethanes and polysilacarbosilanes, precursors of silicon carbide-based materials Pages 99-107 Eric Bacqué, Marc Birot, Jean-Paul Pillot, Paulette Lapouyade, Pierre Gerval, Claude Biran, Jacques Dunoguès

A bulky tris(trisilyl)methyl ligand incorporating a donor sulfur atom: some (Me3Si)2(PhSMe2Si)CSnMe2X compounds Pages 109-112 Dmitry A. Antonov, Colin Eaborn, J. David Smith, Peter B. Hitchcock, Elias Molla, Valeria I. Rozenberg, Wodzimierz A. Stacyk, Anna Kowaleska

Iodo(methoxydimethylsilyl)bis(trimethylsilyl)methane: a reagent for the preparation of novel organometallic compounds. Crystal structures of Me)}2 and MgI2(OEt2)2 Pages 113-120 Colin Eaborn, Peter B. Hitchcock, Anna Kowalewska, Zheng-Rong Lu, J. David Smith, Wlodzimierz A. Staczyk

The reactions of phenyldimethylsilyllithium with nitriles Pages 121-124 Ian Fleming, Monica Solay, Frederik Stolwijk

Formation of organosilicon compounds 115: the applicability as precursors for β-SiC of carbosilanes resulting from the gas phase pyrolysis of methylsilanes Pages 125-131 D. Tögel, A. Antony, J. Bill, Petra Scheer, A. Eichhöfer, G. Fritz

A systematic analysis of the structure-reactivity trends for some ‘cation-like’ early transition metal catalysts for dehydropolymerization of silanes Pages 133-143 Vladimir K. Dioumaev, John F. Harrod

Si---H-containing cyclosilanes and their behaviour in the dehydrogenative polymerization reaction Pages 145-155 Edwin Hengge, Peter Gspaltl, Erich Pinter

NMR spectra of phenoxysilanes with various silyl groups Pages 157-162 Paul F. Hudrlik, Donald K. Minus

Palladium-catalyzed reactions of 1,1,2,2-tetraethyl- and 1,1,2,2-tetra(isopropyl)-3,4-benzo-1,2-disilacyclobut-3-ene with alkynes Pages 163-170 Akinobu Naka, Taiichi Okada, Mitsuo Ishikawa

A reappraisal of the stereochemistry of polysilylenes formed by the Wurtz reductive-coupling reaction Pages 171-176 Richard G. Jones, Robert E. Benfield, Philip J. Evans, Simon J. Holder, Julius A. M. Locke

2-(Alkoxymethyl)phenylsilicon compounds: the search for pentacoordination Pages 177-183 A. Mix, U. H. Berlekamp, H. -G. Stammler, B. Neumann, P. Jutzi

Penta- and hexacoordinate silicon compounds with phosphorus donors Pages 185-190 Hans H. Karsch, Roland Richter, Eva Witt

Addition and cycloaddition reactions of di-tert-butyl(di-tert-butylphenylsilylimino) silane Pages 191-197 Jörg Niesmann, Uwe Klingebiel, Mathias Noltemeyer

Silsesquioxanes as synthetic platforms. II. Epoxy-functionalized inorganic-organic hybrid species Pages 199-201 Chunxin Zhang, Richard M. Laine

The β-effect of silicon in the orthogonal geometry Pages 203-210 Joseph B. Lambert, Xiaoyang Liu

Synthesis, structures and oxidative addition reactions of new thermally stable silylenes; crystal structures of [(CH2tBu)}2C6H4-1,2] and [((CH2tBu)}2C6H4-1,2)(μ-E)]2 (E = Se or Te) Pages 211-220 Barbara Gehrhus, Peter B. Hitchcock, Michael F. Lappert, Joachim Heinicke, Roland Boese, Dieter Bläser

The chemistry of fumarate and maleate inhibitors with platinum hydrosilylation catalysts Pages 221-227 Larry N. Lewis, Judith Stein, Robert E. Colborn, Yan Gao, Jun Dong

Oxidation of sterically hindered organosilicon hydrides using potassium permanganate Pages 229-234 Paul D. Lickiss, Ronan Lucas

Silyl isoxazolines-2: synthesis, structure and properties Pages 235-244 E. Lukevics, V. Dirnens, A. Kemme, J. Popelis

Competitive dehydrogenative silylation and hydrogenative dimerization of vinyltriethoxysilane catalyzed by the [Ni(acac)2] + PPh3 system, intermediate and mechanistic implications Pages 245-251 B. Marciniec, H. Maciejewski, J. Guliski, B. Maciejewska, W. Duczmal

Organogermanium dendrimers Pages 253-260 Vincent Huc, Paul Boussaguet, Pierre Mazerolles

Characterization of polyfunctional alkoxysilanes using potassium (K+) ionization of desorbed species mass spectrometry Pages 261-266 Michael J. Michalczyk, William J. Simonsick Jr., Kenneth G. Sharp

Hydrosilylation of acetylenes using a H2PtCl6/CO catalytic system; significantly enhanced yields of α-products Pages 267-270 Mirna Rivera-Claudio, James Rozell, Eulalia Ramirez-Oliva, Jorge Cervantes, Keith H. Pannell

Density functional theory (DFT)/IGLO 29Si NMR study of trialkylsilylated arenium, bromonium, oxonium and nitrilium ions, comparison with experimental data and the question of persistent trialkylsilicenium ions in solution Pages 271-277 George A. Olah, Golam Rasul, G. K. Surya Prakash

Infrared and 29Si NMR spectroscopic investigations on metallasiloxanes derived from organosilanetriols Pages 279-286 Andreas Voigt, Ramaswamy Murugavel, Uwe Ritter, Herbert W. Roesky

Polymerization of in situ generated disilenes Pages 287-293 Hideki Sakurai, Masaru Yoshida, Kenkichi Sakamoto

Long-chain alkanes with an internal ---H2Si---SiH2--- linkage Pages 295-299 Marcus Söldner, Annette Schier, Hubert Schmidbaur

Synthesis and structural characterisation of the novel metallasiloxane compound [Cp2*ZrOSiPh2OLiOH]2 Pages 301-304 Isaac Abrahams, Charlotte Simon, Majid Motevalli, Syed A. A. Shah, Alice C. Sullivan

Pharmacological discrimination between enantiomeric germanes by muscarinic receptors: a study on germanium/silicon bioisosterism Pages 305-323 Reinhold Tacke, Dirk Reichel, Peter G. Jones, Xue Hou, Magali Waelbroeck, Jan Gross, Ernst Mutschler, Günter Lambrecht

The differing modes of reaction of 1-(8-dimethylamino-1-naphthyl)-1-hydrodisilane and 1-(1-naphthyl)-1-hydrodisilane in nickel-catalyzed reactions with acetylene: formation of a pseudo-pentacoordinate silole via Si---Si bond cleavage vs. hydrosilation without Si---Si bond cleavage Pages 325-334 Kohei Tamao, Masahiro Asahara, Atsushi Kawachi

Palladium complex catalyzed Si---Si bond metathesis dimerization of 3,4-benzo-1,2-dimethyl-1,2-diethyl-1,2-disilacyclobut-3-ene and isomerization of the resulting and relevant dimers Pages 335-341 Yuko Uchimaru, Masato Tanaka

Time-resolved gas-phase kinetic studies of the reactions of silylene with disilane and trisilane Pages 343-349 Rosa Becerra, H. Monty Frey, Ben P. Mason, Robin Walsh

Ruthenium-catalyzed regioselective step-growth copolymerization of 3′,4′-methylenedioxyacetophenone and α,ω-dienes Pages 351-354 Guohong Wang, Hongjie Guo, William P. Weber

Silylene and disilene reactions with electron-poor 1,3-dienes: new ring systems and complete degradation of a CF3 group Pages 355-362 Manfred Weidenbruch, Peter Will, Karl Peters, Hans Georg von Schnering, Heinrich Marsmann

The reactivity of tetramesityldisilene with epoxides: dependence of product distributions on steric and structural characteristics of the epoxide Pages 363-375 John E. Mangette, Douglas R. Powell, Timothy K. Firman, Robert West

Supersilylierte Disilene, Cyclotri-, Cyclotetra- sowie Tetrahedrosilane: Erzeugung, Strukturen, Bildungswege Pages 377-386 Nils Wiberg, Christian M. M. Finger, Harald Auer, Kurt Polborn

Stereospecific insertion of germylene into the vinyl chloride bond Pages 387-389 Harunobu Ohgaki, Wataru Ando

Derivatisation of octasilsesquioxane with alcohols and silanols Pages 391-393 Alan R. Bassindale, Theresa Gentle

Gas-phase reactions of silicon-centred intermediates with chlorofluorocarbons Pages 395-396 Michael P. Clarke, Martin Conqueror, Geraint H. Morgan, Iain M. T. Davidson

BiCl3-catalyzed Mukaiyama-aldol and carbonyl-ene reactions Pages 397-399 Laurence Peidro, Christophe Le Roux, André Laporterie, Jacques Dubac

Reactions of an incompletely-condensed silsesquioxane with Ph3PCH2: a new procedure for derivatizing silsesquioxanes with important implications for the chemistry of silica surfaces Pages 401-403 Frank J. Feher, Shawn H. Phillips

Double oxidative addition of the Si---Si and Si---Ge bonds onto isonitrile-platinum(0) complexes leading to the formation of tetrakis(organosilyl)- and bis(organogermyl)bis(organosilyl)platinum(IV) complexes Pages 405-408 Michinori Suginome, Hideaki Oike, Philippa H. Shuff, Yoshihiko Ito

Oxaoctasilahomocubane and dioxaoctasilabishomocubane: novel silicon ring systems Pages 409-411 Masafumi Unno, Tomonao Yokota, Hideyuki Matsumoto

Kinetic study on thermal syn-anti isomerization of dodecaisopropyltricyclo[4.2.0.02,5]octasilane Pages 413-415 Soichiro Kyushin, Yusuke Yagihashi, Hideyuki Matsumoto

Extension of the Benkeser reaction to the reductive trichlorosilylation of main group element chlorides Pages 417-419 Wolf-Walther du Mont, Lutz Peter Müller, Lars Müller, Sebastian Vollbrecht, Andreas Zanin

New cascade silylcarbocyclization (SiCaC) of enediynes Pages 421-423 Iwao Ojima, James V. McCullagh, William R. Shay

Cross-conjugated polymers via condensation of a zirconocene alkynyl(benzyne) derivative generated by thermolysis of Cp2ZrMe(C6H4CCSiMe3) Pages 425-428 Shane S. H. Mao, T. D. Tilley

Synthese und Struktur eines neuartigen molekularen λ5-Organospirosilikats und dessen dynamisches Verhalten in Lösung Pages 429-433 Michael Veith, Andreas Rammo