Polymerization of methylsilylenes into polymethylsilanes or polycarbosilanes after dechlorination of dichloromethylsilanes?

Yuelong Tian, Weigang Zhang, Min Ge, Shouquan Yu, Xiaoxu Lv, Tingting Zhang

RSC Advances · 2016 · 13 citations · 16 references

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The discovery that dimethylsilylene polymerized into polycarbosilane, not polydimethylsilane, suggests a metallocene catalytic polymerization of 1-silenes as analogues of polyolefins.

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