Our next work was published just yesterday in the prestigious RSC Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers journal. This is a good collaboration work dealing with the elaboration of a synthetic protocol to gain a series of silsesquioxane dendrimers with different cores, from mono-T8, octa-T8 silsesquioxane to di- and tetrafunctional double-decker silsesquioxanes with reactive Si-H moiety. They were obtained in a one-pot synthetic path based on a sequence of Si-H hydrosilylation and Si-Cl reduction reactions. The protocol was verified in terms of a few factors, i.e. placement of the reactive Si-H and Si-Vi bond in substrates and two reducing agents (LiAlH4 and Red-Al®), respectively.
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Tricky but repeatable synthetic approach to branched, multifunctional silsesquioxane dendrimer derivatives
A. Mrzygłód, R. Januszewski, J. Duszczak, M. Dutkiewicz, M. Kubicki, B. Dudziec
Inorg. Chem. Front., 2023, (Advance Article) DOI: 10.1039/D3QI00500C