Our new paper in Materials as a result of joint research with prof. UAM dr hab. Patrycja Żak and her group. The paper concerns the synthesis of bifunctional cubic silsesquioxanes based on different but complementary reactions, i.e., cross-metathesis (CM) and silylative coupling (SC), applied in a one-pot manner, which has an attractive impact on the synthetic procedure, as it is economic in terms of the isolation of intermediate products.
A series of cubic T8 type silsesquioxane derivatives with a broad scope of styryl substituents were synthesized in a one-pot procedure and characterized by spectroscopic and spectrometric methods. Additionally, the methodology disclosed in the paper enables the (E)-stereoselective introduction of styrenes derivative to the cubic T8 type core. The presented compounds can be interesting precursors for further functionalization that may significantly increase the possibility of their application in the design and synthesis of new functional materials.
Formation of Bifunctional Octasilsesquioxanes via Silylative Coupling and Cross-Metathesis Reaction
M. Bołt, P. Żak, B. Dudziec, A. Schulmann, B. Marciniec
Materials 2020, 13(18), 3966 DOI: 10.3390/ma13183966