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Inside Cover: Covalent Grafting of Silatranes to Carbon Interfaces (Chem. Eur. J. 30/2014)
Author(s) -
Peureux Charles,
Jouikov Viatcheslav
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201490123
Subject(s) - covalent bond , grafting , organosilicon , carbon fibers , cover (algebra) , graphite , rootstock , materials science , chemistry , polymer chemistry , organic chemistry , composite material , botany , engineering , mechanical engineering , composite number , biology , polymer
Successful grafting requires good vascular joining between the scion and the rootstock. In their Full Paper on page 9290 , C. Peureux and V. Jouikov parallel this principle to an efficient orbital overlap providing a true electronic conjugation of a 3 c–4 e orbital system of silatranes with macroscopic π‐type substituents (C sp2 network of graphite) through benzyl‐like structures formed upon covalent grafting of silatranyl moieties to carbon‐based conducting interfaces. Such systems can be seen as “organosilicon electrodes”.