Organic, organometallic, and polymer chemistry, as well as materials science, all utilize silicon in various forms, yet there is little cross-fertilization of ideas and applications among the disciplines. This book presents a much-needed overview of silicon chemistry, allowing fundamental and applied scientists to take full advantage of progress made within and outside their primary fields of expertise. With an emphasis on the preparation and reactivity of silicon compounds in organic, organometallic, and polymer chemistry, the author examines a broad range of useful topics-from mechanisms to syntheses of and syntheses using different organofunctional silanes. Numerous schemes as well as up-to-date examples from academia and industry will help readers to solve current synthetic problems and explore ideas for future research.Content:Front Matter Preface Table of ContentsPart I. Fundamentals of Silicon Reactivity: Reactive Intermediates and Reaction Mechanisms 1. Organosilanes: Where to Find Them, What to Call Them, How to Detect Them2. Atomic and Molecular Properties of Silicon3. Silicon-Based Reactive Intermediates4. Extracoordination at Silicon5. Reaction Mechanisms for Nucleophilic Substitution at SiliconPart II. The Formation and Cleavage of Non-Carbon Bonds to Silicon: Applications in Organic and Polymer Chemistry 6. Silicon and Transition Metal Chemistry7. Hydrosilanes as Reducing Agents8. Replacing H with Si: Silicon-Based Reagents9. Silicones10. Siloxanes Based on T and Q Units11. Other Silicon-Containing PolymersPart III. The Formation and Cleavage of Silicon-Carbon Bonds: Applications in Organic Synthesis 12. Formation of Si-C Bonds: The Synthesis of Functional Organosilanes13. Silicon in a Biological Environment14. Silicon in the Organic World: Electronic Effects of Silyl Groups15. Rearrangements16. Cleavage of Si-C Bonds Graphical Indices of Functional Group TransformationsIndex