1. Previous volumes are: a) ‘Silanes, Surfaces and Interfaces’, D. E. Leyden, ed., Gordon and Breach, New York,1985; b) ‘Chemically Modified Surfaces in Science and Industry’, D. E. Leyden and W. T. Collins, eds., Gordon and Breach, New York, 1987; c) ‘Chemically Modified Oxide Surfaces’, D. E. Leyden and W. T. Collins, eds., Gordon and Breach, New York, 1989; d) ‘Chemically Modified Surfaces’, H. A. Mottola and J. R. Steinmetz, eds., Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1992; e) ‘Chemically Modified Surfaces’, J. J. Pesek and I. E. Leigh, eds., The Royal Society of Chemistry, 1994; f) ‘Chemically Modified Surfaces: Recent Developments’, J. J. Pesek, M. T. Matyska and R. R. Abuelifiya, eds., The Royal Society of Chemistry, 1996.
2. See, for example: a) R. K. Iler, ‘The Chemistry of Silica’, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1979, Chapter 6;
3. b) ‘The Colloid Chemistry of Silica’, H. E. Bergner, ed., American Chemical Society, 1994;
4. c) E. F. Vansant, P. Van Der Voort and K. C. Vrancken, ‘Characterization and Chemical Modification of the Silica Surface’, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1995.
5. Ammonia-catalyzed silylation reactions of Cab-O-Sil with methoxymethylsilanes