Inside Cover: Covalent Grafting of Silatranes to Carbon Interfaces (Chem. Eur. J. 30/2014)

Abstract

Successful grafting requires good vascular joining between the scion and the rootstock. In their Full Paper on , C. Peureux and V. Jouikov parallel this principle to an efficient orbital overlap providing a true electronic conjugation of a 3 c–4 e orbital system of silatranes with macroscopic π‐type substituents (Csp2 network of graphite) through benzyl‐like structures formed upon covalent grafting of silatranyl moieties to carbon‐based conducting interfaces. Such systems can be seen as “organosilicon electrodes”.