“…Catalytic routes toward unsymmetrical siloxanes (Si-O-Si') have also been demonstrated (Scheme 1, B, conditions VI-VIII) using Sc(OTf) 3 (Hreczycho et al, 2013;Hreczycho, 2015), Nafion (Kaźmierczak and Hreczycho, 2018), or Amberlyst-15 (Kuciński and Hreczycho, 2019a) with silanols and alkylsilanes at room temperature. Transition metal catalyzed routes to unsymmetrical disiloxanes have been achieved through Pd-catalyzed arylation of hydroxysiloxanes (Kurihara et al, 2013), nonhydrolytic Pd/Ccatalyzed cross-coupling reactions (Igarashi et al, 2014), Bamediated dehydrocoupling of hydrosilanes and silanols (Le Coz et al, 2019) and silylation of silanols catalyzed by a ruthenium complex (Marciniec et al, 2008). Other routes to form Si-O-Si' bonds include the use of fluoride and azidosilanes (Abele et al, 2003) as well as a catalyst-free, chlorine-free option using disilazanes (Kuciński and Hreczycho, 2019b) (Scheme 1, B, conditions IX-X).…”