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Dalton Trans., 2003, 2945 - 2949, DOI: 10.1039/b302950f
A higher yielding route for T8 silsesquioxane cages and X-ray crystal structures of some novel spherosilicates
Alan R. Bassindale, Zhihua Liu, Iain A. MacKinnon, Peter G. Taylor, Yuxing Yang, Mark E. Light, Peter N. Horton and Michael B. Hursthouse
The synthesis of T8 silsesquioxane cages from trialkoxysilanes using tetra n-butylammonium fluoride is described. The yields are in the range 20–95%, which is a great improvement on other literature routes. This methodology enables a wide range of functionalised T8 cages to be prepared. The X-ray crystal structures of three new T8 cages, octacyclopentylsilsesquioxane, octaisobutylsilsesquioxane and octa(4-carboxymethyl-3,3-dimethylbutyl)silsesquioxane are also reported.
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