부산대학교 도서관

Polycarbosilanes are the most successful and widely studied class of polymer precursors for silicon carbide, but traditional methods for thier synthesis are inefficient and nonselective. This project is focused on developing transition metal catalysts for the synthesis of polycarbosilanes and other perceramic polymers. In recent work we have developed the first homogeneous transition metal catalysts for the dehydrogenative coupling of simple alkyl silanes to oligomeric and polymeric carbosilanes, H-(SiR{sub 2}CR{prime}{sub 2}){sub n}-SiR{sub 3}. Future work will help elucidate the mechanism of the catalytic process, explore the use of hydrogen acceptors as reaction accelerators, and develop new and more active catalysts.