Efficient Methods for Preparing Silicon Compounds

Herbert W. Roesky is an Emeritus Professor for Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry with a broad experience in materials chemistry, homogeneous catalysis, fluorine, aluminum, and silicon chemistry as well as chemical education. In the tradition of great European chemical lecture demonstrations, he has given experimental lectures all over the world. His leadership in the above mentioned fluorine field is demonstrated with the international Henri Moissan Fluorine Award of France and the Fluorine Award of the American Chemical Society. For his scientific work of compounds with low valent aluminum, homogeneous catalysis, and new materials, he received from Germany the Alfred Stock Memorial Award and the Leibniz Award, from the Royal Society of Chemistry the Centenary Medal, from France the Grand Prix de la Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie and the Wittig-Grignard Lectureship, and from the American Chemical Society the Inorganic Award. The Indian Chemical Society of Research awarded him with the Rao Lectureship. These awards and recognitions in a number of countries demonstrate his independent scientific leadership of outstanding quality in research. After his retirement, he on started the chemistry of low valent silicon. The results have found international recognition due to their unique and unforeseen properties. The number of topics show his broad vision of modern and important developments especially in multidisciplinary research.

1. Preface2. Preparation of the NHC (L1,2) and its Application for Synthesizing Lewis Base Stabilized Dichlorosilylene L1,2SiCl23. Lithium Tris(2,4,6-Triisopropylphenyl) Disilenide: A Versatile Reagent for the Transfer of the Disilenyl-Group4. Preparation of a SiCS Three- and a SiO2C2 Five-Membered Ring System5. Cobalt-Methylidyne-Silanetriol as Precursor for Catalytic Hydroformylation in a Two-Phase System6. Convenient and High Yield Access to Silicon(II) Compounds Using Alkali Metal Amides as Dehydrochlorinating Agents7. From Bis-silylene to Cyclodisiloxane8. From bis-silylene to 1,4-disilabenzene: An Efficient Method to Generate Silicon Analogue of Benzene9. Silanetriols: Synthesis, Characterization, and Structures10. From Silanetriols to Aluminosilicates11. Synthesis of a Zwitter-Ionic 2,4-Disila-1,3-Diphosphacyclobutadiene Compound12. Facile Synthesis Of Silaimine Complex Phc(Ntbu)2si(Cl)=N(2,6-Ipr2c6h3)13. One Pot Synthesis of E- [N(SiMe3)2](n1-Me5C5)Si=Si(n1-Me5C5)[N(SiMe3)2]14. Access to Silicon(IV) Compounds with a Si-N Bond from Silicon(II) Precursors by N-H Bond Activation15. Access to Silicon(IV) Compounds from Silicon(II) Precursors by C-H and C-F Bond Activation16. Silylene as a Lewis Base with a Three-Coordinate Silicon17. A Stable Silicon(II) Monohydride18. Tetra(Silyl)Methane, (H3Si)4C, A Volatile Carbosilane for the Chemical Vapour Deposition of Amorphous Silicon Carbide Thin Films19. Trimethylsilylperrhenate- A Non-Ionic Reagent Soluble in Organic Solvents for the Preparation of Perrhenates20. (Monosodiumoxy)Organoalkoxysilanes (Rebrov Salts)- Polyfunctional Monomers For Silicone Syntheses21. Hydrido Silyl Complexes of Chromium with Metal-Hydrogen-Silicon Three-Center Bonds