1. The chemistry of organosilicon compounds, with which this chapter is primarily concerned, is described in that hallmark, C. Eaborn, Organosilicon Compounds, Butterworths, London (1960).
2. E. G. Rochow, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 67, 963 (1945). The first new direct synthesis in over 30 years (synthesis of alkylalkoxysilanes) was recently described by J. L. Speier, in Abstracts, XIII Organosilicon Symposium, Ann Arbor, 1979.
3. J. L. Speier, J. A. Webster, and G. H. Barnes, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 79, 974 (1957). The process is also termed “hydrosilation.”
4. C. Friedel and J. M. Crafts, Annalen 127, 31 (1863), made tetraethylsilane, the first organosilane.
5. E. G. Rochow, An Introduction to the Chemistry of the Silicones, John Wiley and Sons, New York (1946).