The substituent effect was analyzed on the binding energy of 2p-electrons of the silicon atoms estimated by the X-ray electron spectroscopy or calculated by quantum chemistry method for 15 series of organosilicon compounds. It was established for the first time that the binding energy depended not only on the inductive and resonance effects of the substituents, but also on the polarization effect consisting in the electrostatic interaction of the positive charge on the silicon atom with the dipoles which this charge induced in the substituents. The contribution of the polarization effect reached 35%.X-ray electron spectropscopy is extensively used in the study of the energies binding the internal (core) electrons with the atomic nuclei in versatile molecules [1][2][3][4]. Let us consider the process occurring in the gas phase:Here AX n is a neutral molecule, A ·+ X n is a cationradical formed from AX n by the elimination of an internal electron from the central atom A under the action of an X-ray quantum hν, X are substituents not involved directly into the reaction, e is an electron.By definition [1, 5] the binding energy E of the internal electron is the following difference:Here E(A ·+ X n ) and E(AX n ) are total energies of the cation-radical and the molecule.Depending on the nature of the A atom (C, N, O, Br, …) and on the type of the internal electron (1s, 2p, 3d, …) the energy E varies in a wide range, from tens to thousands eV [2]. The investigation of the influence of the intramolecular interactions on the energy E provides the best information at the use of the so-called narrow series of compounds, for instance, CX 4 , OX 2 , BrX etc.In these series the central atom A is invariable, and the substituents X, on the contrary, change the donor-acceptor properties.At the first site the X substituents in the narrow series AX n should not affect the energy of the internal electrons of the A atom since these electrons virtually are not involved in the formation of the chemical bonds A-X. Actually it follows from numerous publications [1-10] that the energies of the core electrone of the invariable atom A depend on X. This seeming paradox was analyzed in detail [1,6,11] in the literature on the X-ray electron spectroscopy and can be considered on the qualitative level by an example of the molecule AX 4 .According to a simplified model in the molecule AX 4 the valence electrones of the A atom and X substituents are charged spheres of the radii R A and R X respectively, and R X > R A . The effective charge Q of the atom A creates within the sphere a potential Q/(4πε O R A ) affecting the core electrons of atom A. The charge Q is not localized on the A atom, but is partially transferred to the acceptor substituents X. Therefore the effect of the valence electrons of atom A and substituents X on the binding energy E of the core electrons is described by the equation: