Borane-catalysed postpolymerisation modification of the Si–H bonds in poly(phenylsilane)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
-catalysed hydrosilation, heterodehydrocoupling, and demethanative coupling reactions of the Si-H bonds in poly(phenylsilane) allow the introduction of 10-40% new sidechains in this polymer. The resulting new polymers contain an unusually wide variety of functionalities including Si-C, Si-O, Si-N, and Si-S bonds, whose presence is confirmed by NMR and IR spectroscopies. Gel permeation chromatography (GPC) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) are consistent with conservation of the all-silicon backbones in these modified polymers, a result of the high chemoselectivity of the borane-catalysed reactions for Si-H versus Si-Si bonds. UV-visible spectroscopy is sensitive to the presence of new functional groups in the modified polysilanes, although the high proportion of residual Si-H groups attenuates the changes in the σ-delocalized chromophores. Limitations in substrate scope, arising from issues of borane-substrate complexation or competing catalytic over-reduction chemistry, have been identified, and the potential for achieving greater degrees of sidechain substitution at higher reaction temperatures has been demonstrated for the hydrosilation of 1-hexene.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".