Z. Naturforsch. 54 b, 573-576 (1999); eingegangen am 28. Dezember 1998 Fused Salts, Monosilane, Methylsilanes, Hydrosilylation, Chloroaluminate Silanes of technical interest as starting compounds for semiconducting materials or hydrosi­ lylation reactions, (CH3)xSiH4_x (x = 0, 1,2, 3), are obtained by direct hydrogenation of the corresponding chlorosilanes in the presence of various interstitia...

Background: Allylsilanes which possess a siloxy group in the α position have been shown to rearrange under Lewis acid catalysis to afford vinyl silanes (eq 1). To understand this reaction completely, we need to know the exact mechanism by which it occurs. Currently two mechanisms may be postulated for the rearrangement; one involves a concerted pericyclic process and the second involves a stepw...

This paper presents a method to control the average spacing between organometallic chemical vapor deposition (OMCVD) grown gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) in a line. Focused ion beam patterned CH3-terminated self-assembled monolayers are refilled systematically with different mixtures of SH- and CH3-terminated silanes. The average spacing between OMCVD Au NPs is demonstrated systematically to decre...

Time resolved studies of silylene, SiH2, generated by the 193 nm laser flash photolysis of phenylsilane, have been carried out to obtain rate coefficients for its bimolecular reactions with methyl-, dimethyl- and trimethyl-silanes in the gas phase. The reactions were studied over the pressure range 3-100 Torr with SF6 as bath gas and at five temperatures in the range 300-625 K. Only slight pres...

The aluminium amide Al(NMe2)3 acts as a stoichiometric or catalytic reagent in dehydrogenic Si-N bond formation using amines and silanes. Although of limited substrate scope, this represents the first p-block metal catalytic system for N-H/Si-H dehydrocoupling. The observed catalytic rate law for the formation of aminosilane products in a model study of one of the catalytic reactions suggests a...

Two-dimensional (2D) inorganic layered nanoplatelets exhibit superior lubricating properties in both solid states and oil dispersions. In this paper, we have systematically investigated the effects of surface and interlayer modifications on the tribological performance of layered α-zirconium phosphate (ZrP) nanoplatelets in mineral oil. The pristine layered ZrP nanoplatelets were first reacted ...