FACILE, HIGH-YIELD SYNTHESIS OF FUNCTIONALIZED SPHEROSILICATES - PRECURSORS OF NOVEL ORGANOLITHIC MACROMOLECULAR MATERIALS

Organolithic macromolecular materials (OMM’s) are hybrids composed of silicate and organic moieties.1-8Recently, we reported9the successful implementation of a new strategy for the synthesis of OMM’s that involves the use of functionalized spherosilicates10as “molecular building blocks”.11This allows us to control the structure of both the silicate and the organic component of the OMM. However, progress in synthesizing and characterizing new OMM’s has been hampered by the fact that the procedure used to synthesize the functionalized spherosilicates10involves many steps, some with very low yields, and is unsuitable for making large quantities of these materials. © 1990, American Chemical Society. All rights reserved.