“…Owing to the high degree of functionalization (leading to higher reactivity and higher molecular interactions) and the high flexibility of hyperbranched polysiloxanes, and as they keep a low viscosity and a good solubility, they have been proposed as highly reactive additives for resines, 33,39 crosslinkers, 41 macroinitiator for radical polymerization, 49 supported catalysts, 50 or stationary phase for capillary electrophoresis. 51 In our case, a one-pot strategy has been selected to prepare poly(siloxysilane)s in which the hyperbranched core is prepared by hydrosilylation of 1,7-octadiene (a bifunctional "B 2 " reagent) with the cyclic siloxane 2,4,6,8-tetramethylcyclotetrasiloxane (a tetrafunctional "A 4 " reagent). In this case, mixtures of, for example, A 3 B, A 2 B 2 , or AB 3 units are expected to be formed as intermediates during the reaction and are responsible for the branching.…”