Handbook of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry / Si. Silicium. Silicon. (System-Nr. 15) / Supplement Volume

The Gmelin Institute has begun the revision of the system number Silicon. The volume Silicon A 1 appeared in 1984 and describes the history of the discovery of the element and of several selected Si compounds. The volume Silicon Suppl. B 1 appeared in 1982 and describes silicon and noble gases, silicon and hydrogen (including SiHn-Oxygen Compounds). The coverage of silicon carbide was begun in Silicon Suppl. Vol. B 2 in 1984 describing the physical properties of SiC, SiC diodes, molecular species in the SiC-C gas phase, and amorphous silicon-carbon alloys. The volume Silicon Suppl. B 3 concluded in 1986 the coverage of silicon carbide and covered in its initial chapter the Si-C phase diagram and in the final chapters the higher order systems of Si and C with additional elements through boron, arranged according to the Gmelin system. The present volume B 4 covers the system Si-N including adsorption and chemisorption of nitrogen on silicon and then the binary (except for Si3N4) and ternary silicon nitrides. Silicon-nitrogen-hydrogen compounds, including polymers are extensively described. Nitrogen substituted silicon-nitrogen compounds follow. The substituents have been considered according to the Gmelin System, i.e., bonding through sulfur, boron, carbon, both sulfur and carbon, or both boron and carbon. Literature closing date: end of 1987.