The omnipresence of silicon compounds with carbon substituents in synthetic chemistry
hides the fact that, except for certain substitution patterns at the silicon atom, their …

Monosilane (SiH4) is far less well behaved than its carbon analogue methane (CH4). It is a
colourless gas that is industrially relevant as a source of elemental silicon, but its pyrophoric …

Carefully designed cyclic hydrosilanes enable trans-selective hydrosilylation of unactivated
alkynes without transition metal catalysts via silicate formation. Employment of sterically …

Silasubstitution, where silicon is substituted for carbon at specific sites of the substrate, has
become a growing practice in medicinal chemistry. Introducing silicon into bioactive …

The formation of several silyl ethers (alkoxysilanes, R3Si‐OR') and unsymmetrical siloxanes
(R3Si‐O‐SiR'3) can be catalyzed by the commercially available potassium bis (trimethylsilyl) …

Sterically encumbered organosilanes can be difficult to synthesize with conventional,
strongly basic reagents; the harsh reaction conditions are often low yielding and not suitable …

Silyl esters have been exploited as metastable reaction intermediates, both purposefully and
unintentionally, since at least the 1960s. Their reactivity is broadly related to the substituents …

The organosilicon-mediated organic synthesis (SiMOS) has attracted much attention over
the recent decades. However, the use of organosilicon reagents with novel catalytic …

Organic–inorganic building blocks are an important class of hybrid materials due to the
synergistic versatility of organic compounds with the robust properties of inorganic materials …

Silicon and its related organosilicon chemistry has become a mainstay in synthetic chemistry
as they can participate in numerous organic transformations. Due to space limitations, this …