There is provided herein a process for the synthesis of sulfonyl silanes. There is also provided herein various sulfenylated and sulfonylated silicon-containing compounds made by the process.

Described herein are methods for making alkenyl disiloxanes, comprising combining an alkenyl halosilane with a bis-hydrido terminated alkyl disiloxane and adding the mixture to water, an acidic aqueous solution, or a basic aqueous solution. The ratio of the alkenyl halosilane to the bis-hydrido terminated alkyl disiloxane is about 1:10 to about 10:1. The alkenyl halosilane and bis-hydrido terminated alkyl disiloxane are mixed at about 20° C. to about 45° C. In an example, no organic solvent is present. The reaction product is separated and washed with saturated NaHCO.sub.3 solution (e.g., sodium bicarbonate).

Described herein are methods for making alkenyl disiloxanes, comprising combining an alkenyl halosilane with an alkyl halosilane and adding the mixture to water, an acidic aqueous solution, or a basic aqueous solution. The ratio of the alkenyl halosilane to the alkyl halosilane is about 10:1 to about 1:10. The alkenyl halosilane and the alkyl halosilane are mixed at about 20° C. to about 45° C. The reaction product is separated and washed with saturated alkali carbonate solution.

A method for forming monosubstituted diphenylsilanes is broadly provided. The method involves reacting diphenylsilane with an alcohol in the presence of a catalyst and a strong base activator. The reaction results in high selectivity to addition at only one hydrogen site.

The invention relates to a composition comprising olefinically functionalized siloxane oligomers derived from olefinically functionalized alkoxysilanes and optionally alkoxysilanes functionalized with saturated hydrocarbons, and also, optionally, a tetraalkoxysilane, which have not more than one olefinic radical on the silicon atom, and whose chloride content is reduced, and also to processes for preparing them and to the use thereof.

Provided is a method of preparing a silylative-reduced N-heterocyclic compound by reducing an N-heteroaromatic compound including a sp.sup.2 hybridized nitrogen atom while simultaneously introducing a silyl group into a beta-position with respect to a nitrogen atom of the N-heteroaromatic compound, using a silane compound, in the presence of an organoboron catalyst.

Branched organopolysiloxanes and organopolysiloxanes with low alkoxy content are produced in a first reaction unit by continuous feed of organohalosilanes and alcohol to a reaction vessel surmounted by a distillation column, the vessel containing an excess of water relative to the halogen content of the organohalosilanes. A second reaction unit for removing volatiles from the product from the first reaction unit is also preferably employed.

Siloxanes are prepared by reacting: a compound A with a compound B or a compound A with a compound C or a compound B with a compound C or a compound C alone,
in the presence of a compound D at ≥40° C., wherein compound A is a silane or a siloxane having at least one silicon-bonded hydrogen atom, compound B is a silane or a siloxane having at least one silicon-bonded alkoxy moiety, compound C is a silane or a siloxane having at least one silicon-bonded hydrogen atom and at least one silicon-bonded alkoxy moiety, and compound D is a cationic Si(II) compound.

A process for preparing siloxanes, wherein at least one alkoxy-organosilicon compound selected from compounds of the general formula (I) and/or from compounds of the general formula (II) is/are reacted in the presence of a cationic silicon and/or germanium compound at a temperature of −40 to 250° C.

A branched organosilicon compound (“compound”) having the general formula (R1).sub.3Si—X—Y is provided. In the formula: each R.sup.1 is selected from R and —OSi(R.sup.4)3, with the proviso that at least one R.sup.1 is —OSi(R.sup.4)3; each R is independently a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl group; each R.sup.4 is selected from R, —OSi(R.sup.5)3, and —[OSiR.sub.2]mOSiR.sub.3; each R.sup.5 is selected from R, —OSi(R.sup.6)3, and —[OSiR.sub.2]mOSiR.sub.3; each R.sup.6 is selected from R and —[OSiR.sub.2]mOSiR.sub.3; with the proviso that at least one of R.sup.4, R.sup.5 and R.sup.6 is —[OSiR.sub.2]mOSiR.sub.3; 0<m≤100; X is a divalent linking group; and Y is selected from one of formulas (1)-(111) described herein. Also provided is a method of preparing the compound via hydrosilylation reaction, a copolymer comprising the reaction product of the compound and a second compound reactive with the compound, a method of forming the copolymer, and a composition including at least one of the compound and the copolymer.