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Silicones—Basic chemistry and selected applications
Author(s) -
O'Lenick Anthony J.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of surfactants and detergents
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.349
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1558-9293
pISSN - 1097-3958
DOI - 10.1007/s11743-000-0130-3
Subject(s) - chemistry , silicone , chemist , carbon atom , organic chemistry , scope (computer science) , polymer science , nanotechnology , alkyl , materials science , computer science , programming language
The objective of this review is to provide a working knowledge of the chemistry of silicone compounds to the practicing chemist. Although silicone compounds have been known for over 50 yr, the chemistry of these materials remains elusive to the average formulating chemist. This is indeed unfortunate, since the chemistry of the silicon atom and resulting silicone compounds is every bit as wide in scope and rich in content as the chemistry of the carbon atom and the resulting surfactant chemistry upon which it is based. Only in the past decade has the use of silicone as a hydrophobic building block for the preparation of surfactants become common. The recent trend to combine silicone, fatty and polyoxyalkylene moieties in the same molecule has resulted in a plethora of new compounds with new properties.