Several types of silicate and their hydrolyzed polysilanols were applied to the synthesis of polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSSs). Silicate cubic octasilicate [Si 8 O 20 ] 8− 5 was silylated with trimethylchlorosilane to yield the incompletely trimethylsilylated cubic octasilicate [Si 8 O 20 ](SiMe 3 ) 7 H 1b bearing one silanol in addition to the totally trimethylsilylated derivative [Si 8 O 20 ](SiMe 3 ) 8 1a. Further silylation of the monosilanol 1b with dimethylchlorosilane and α,ω-hydridochlorooctamethylt etrasiloxane resulted in the formation of POSSs 1c,d, which have hydrosilyl groups as elongated siloxane side chain. Attempts to generate an amino-substituted POSS via chloromethyldimethylsilylation of silicate 5 followed by reaction with amine as well as lithium amide failed. Amino-substitution was accomplished via the use of amine as a catalyst for the capping reaction of incompletely condensed trisilanol 10b with γ-aminopropyltrimethoxysilane affording mono amino-functionalized POSSs 2b,c in moderate yields. Another group of silanolates 7-9 was hydrolyzed with AcOH or HCl to give the corresponding cyclic polysilanol siloxanes 11a-c, respectively.Amine-catalyzed condensation of several of these polysilanol siloxanes 11a-c resulted in the formation of POSSs in high yields depending on the structure of substrates.
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