Peter Jutzi & Ulrich Schubert 
Silicon Chemistry 
From the Atom to Extended Systems

The combined results from an international research project involving 40 interdisciplinary groups, providing the latest knowledge from the past few years. Adopting an application-oriented approach, this handy reference is a must-have for every silicon chemist, whether working in inorganic, organic, physical or polymer chemistry, materials science or physics.

Table of Content

-Investigations on the Reactivity of Atomic Silicon
-Reactions with Matrix Isolated Si O Molecules
-In situ – Diagnostics of Amorphous Silicon Thin Film Deposition
-The Gas Phase Oxidation of Silyl Radicals by Molecular Oxygen
-Oxidation of Matrix-Isolated Silylenes
-Short-Lived Intermediates with Double Bonds to Silicon
-Kinetic Stabilization of Disilenes and Disilynes
-A Tetrasilabuta-1, 3-diene and Related Compounds with Conjugated Multiple Bonds
-Chemistry of Metalated Oligosilanes
-Oligosilyl Substituted Heptaphosphanes
-Polysilanes: Formation, Bonding and Structure
-Phase Behavior of n-Alkylsubstituted Polysilanes
-Structural and Electronic Systematics in Zintl Phases of the Tetrels
-Zintl Phases MSi2 ( M = Ca, Eu, Sr, Ba) at Very High Pressure
-Silicon- and Germanium-Based Sheet Polymers and Zintl Phases
-Kautsky-Siloxene Analogous Monomers and Oligomers
-Silicon-Based Nanotubes
-Structure and Reactivity of Solid Si O
-Si Nanocrystallites in Si Ox Films by Vapour Deposition and Thermal Processing
-Theoretical Treatment of Silicon Clusters
-Isomers of Neutral Silicon Clusters
-Investigation of the Influence of Oxidation and HF Attack on the Photoluminescence of Silicon Nanoparticles
-Localization Phenomena and Photoluminscence from
Nano-structured Silicon, Silicon/Silicon Dioxide
Nanocomposites, Silsesquioxanes and Branched Polysilanes
-Higher-Coordinate Silicon Compounds with Si O5 and Si O6 Skeletons
-Functionalized Silanols and Silanolates
-Transition Metal Fragment Substituted Silanols of Iron and Tungsten – Synthesis, Structure and Condensation Reactions
-Rational Syntheses of Cyclosiloxanes and Molecular Alumo- and Gallosiloxanes
-Synthesis, Structure and Reactivity of Novel Oligomeric Titanasiloxanes
-Metallasilsesquioxanes
-Spin-Spin Interaction in Silsesquioxanes and Transition
Metal Substitution
-Characterization of Si-polymers by Coupling of HPLC-Separation Methods with MALDI-TOF-MS
-The Stepwise Formation of Si-O-Networks
-Mechanism of Ring and Cage Formation in Siloxanes
-Structurally Well-Defined Amphiphilic Polysiloxane Copolymers
-Synthesis and Functionalization of Mesostructured Silica-Based Films
-Modification of Ordered Mesostructured Materials during Synthesis
-Biosilicification; Structure, Regulation of Structure and Model Studies