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Volume 4:
Compounds of Group 15 (As, Sb, Bi) and Silicon Compounds
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Introduction by Ian Fleming (Volume Editor): |
| In this volume, there are single chapters devoted to each of the three group 15 elements,
and then 42 chapters for the various kinds of silicon-containing compounds used
in organic synthesis. The chapters are organized by the functionality attached to the element,
and appear in an order determined by the rules used for the whole series of Science
of Synthesis, with the space given to each determined both by the range of chemistry
that needs to be described and by the importance of the functional arrangement in synthesis. |
| The emphasis in all the chapters in this volume, as in other volumes in the series, is
on the synthesis of the compounds in question. In this volume, as in several of those devoted
to organometallic chemistry, there are also substantial sections in most chapters on
the uses in synthesis of each of the different subclasses of compounds, since in most cases
the arsenic-, antimony-, bismuth-, and silicon-containing compounds are rarely an end in
themselves. |
| Organosilicon chemistry is a large subject in which the focus of interest is
often the events taking place at the silicon atom itself. In this volume the focus is on the
chemistry of the carbon-based structures to which the silicon is attached, either directly
or through an electronegative heteroatom. |
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