Content:
Chapter 1 Historical Overview and Comparison of Silicon with Carbon (pages 1–56): Joyce Y. Corey
Chapter 2 Theoretical Aspects of Organosilicon Compounds (pages 57–225): Yitzhak Apeloig
Chapter 3 Structural Chemistry of Organic Silicon Compounds (pages 227–303): W. S. Sheldrick
Chapter 4 Dynamic Stereochemistry at Silicon (pages 305–370): Robert J. P. Corriu, Christian Guerin and Joel J. E. Moreau
Chapter 5 Thermochemistry (pages 371–391): R. Walsh
Chapter 6 Analysis of Organosilicon Compounds (pages 393–444): T. R. Crompton
Chapter 7 Positive and Negative Ion Chemistry of Silicon?Containing Molecules in the Gas Phase (pages 445–510): Helmut Schwarz
Chapter 8 NMR Spectroscopy of Organosilicon Compounds (pages 511–554): Elizabeth A. Williams
Chapter 9 Photoelectron Spectra of Silicon Compounds (pages 555–653): H. Bock and B. Solouki
Chapter 10 General Synthetic Pathways to Organosilicon Compounds (pages 655–761): Leonhard Birkofer and Oskar Stuhl
Chapter 11 Recent Synthetic Applications of Organosilanes (pages 763–808): Gerald L. Larson
Chapter 12 Acidity, Basicity and Complex Formation of Organosilicon Compounds (pages 809–838): Alan R. Bassindale and Peter G. Taylor
Chapter 13 Reaction Mechanisms of Nucleophilic Attack at Silicon (pages 839–892): Alan R. Bassindale and Peter G. Taylor
Chapter 14 Activating and Directive Effects of Silicon (pages 893–963): Alan R. Bassindale and Peter G. Taylor
Chapter 15 The Photochemistry of Organosilicon Compounds (pages 965–1005): A. G. Brook
Chapter 16 Trivalent Silyl Ions (pages 1007–1014): Joseph B. Lambert and W. J. Schulz
Chapter 17 Multiple Bonds to Silicon (pages 1015–1142): Gerhard Raabe and Josef Michl
Chapter 18 Bioorganosilicon Chemistry (pages 1143–1206): Reinhold Tacke and Haryanto Linoh
Chapter 19 Polysilanes (pages 1207–1240): Robert West
Chapter 20 Hypervalent Silicon Compounds (pages 1241–1288): Robert J. P. Corriu and J. Colin Young
Chapter 21 Siloxane Polymers and Copolymers (pages 1289–1361): T. C. Kendrick, B. Parbhoo and J. W. White
Chapter 22 Organosilicon Derivatives of Phosphorus, Arsenic, Antimony and Bismuth (pages 1363–1394): D. A. (‘Fred’) Armitage
Chapter 23 Chemistry of Compounds with Silicon–Sulphur, Silicon–Selenium and Silicon–Tellurium Bonds (pages 1395–1413): D. A. (‘Fred’) Armitage
Chapter 24 Transition?Metal Silyl Derivatives (pages 1415–1477): T. Don Tilley
Chapter 25 The Hydrosilylation Reaction (pages 1479–1526): Iwao Ojima