title: The initial stages of aminosilanol polymerisation.
abstract: For polysiloxanes to be used as a protective coating it is important that proton transfer, a trigger to polymerisation, is a facile process. Here we investigate the initial stages of polycondensation and compare different silanol tail groups and the effect of solvent (isopropanol). In the case of (3-aminopropyl)trihydroxysilane we see the potential for self catalysis as the tail group is a proton acceptor, while thiolpropyltrihydroxysilane and isopropanol do not promote proton transfer.
authors.affiliation: DFRL, The Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle Street, London, UKW1S 4BS. sam@ri.ac.uk
authors.forename: Samuel A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: French
authors.forename: Alexey A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Sokol
authors.forename: C Richard A
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Catlow
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kornherr
authors.forename: Gerhard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zifferer