A branched alkylsilane includes a branched hydrocarbon backbone which has a linear or branched alkylsilyl moiety extending asymmetrically from the backbone such that the backbone has a first portion and a second portion extending from the moiety. The second portion has two carbon atoms more than the first portion, and the alkylsilyl moiety includes at least one hydrolyzable group bound to silicon for reacting with a substrate. A method for preparing a branched alkylsilane useful for chromatographic applications includes the steps of preparing a vinylidene olefin by dimerization of an .alpha.-olefin and reacting it with a monomeric silane having a silicon-hydrogen bond in the presence of a metallic catalyst such that the silicon-hydrogen bond is added to the vinylidene double bond of the vinylidene olefin thereby converting the double bond to a single bond and bonding the silicon of the monomeric silane to the vinylidene olefin to form a branched alkylsilane.
The invention includes a trialkylsilane comprising a hydrocarbon backbone including one to ten carbon atoms; a terminal trialkylsilyl moiety having at least two alkyl groups independently comprising at least six carbon atoms; and a terminal silyl moiety that has at least one hydrolyzable group bound to a silicon of the silyl moiety. At least one of the alkyl groups of the trialkylsilyl moiety may substituted with at least one halogen, and is preferably a perfluoroalkyl group. The invention also provides methods of producing the trialysilane and substrates including the trialkysilane of the invention, as well as columns and substrates for use in chromatographic applications.
Alkene-platinum-silyl complexes described by formula (COD)Pt(SiR.sup.1.sub.3-n).sub.2 Y.sub.n are claimed, where each R.sup.1 is independently selected from organic groups, halo atoms, and siloxy groups, each Y is an independently selected divalent bridging group between the silicon atoms bonded to platinum, n is 0, 1, 2, or 3, and COD is 1,5-cyclooctadiene.
A novel silane compound is disclosed, which is used as a suitable strating material (monomer) of polysilane eligible for the precursor of electroconductive- and photoconductive-materials such as phtoresists as well as polymerization initiators and silicone carbide-based ceramics and which is useful for chemical vapor deposition.
