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ORGANO-SILICON compounds containing silanol groups are highly reactive, undergoing acid- or base-catalysed condensation to form siloxanes even in the presence of surface acid or base, the condensation being more facile in the order ≡SiOH < = Si(OH)2 < −Si(OH)3 By the use of plastic, quartz or washed borosilicate glass apparatus, several alkyl and aryl silanols and silane diols have been isolated1–3. But only aromatic silane triols (R.Si(OH)3) have been isolated3, the corresponding alkyl derivatives being known only as transient species in solution. We report here that certain organo-silane triols display outstanding stability in aqueous solution.
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BIRCHALL, J., CAREY, J. & HOWARD, A. Silane triols of high stability in aqueous solution. Nature 266, 154–156 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/266154a0
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