Swellable organically modified silica (SOMS) is a hybrid organic/inorganic polysilsesquioxane formed in a sol-gel process from an alkoxysilane precursor. SOMS absorbs many times its mass in organic liquids such as acetone with a concurrent expansion of its volume…
Our research group investigates the metal-carbonyl-mediated synthesis of cyclopentadienone complexes from a diyne bound to the _ortho_ positions on benzene…