Bogdan Marciniec, Julian Chojnowski

• Why silicon?; a journey into the chemical country of overloaded supersilyl compounds; air-stable l-silaallenes; co-ordination and reactivity in organosilicon chemistry; stereochemistry and mechanism of alcohol addition to organosilicon unsaturated species; frontier orbital control of silylene addition to olefins; recent achievements in industrial silicon polymer science.

Bogdan Marciniec, Julian Chojnowski

• Why silicon?; a journey into the chemical country of overloaded supersilyl compounds; air-stable l-silaallenes; co-ordination and reactivity in organosilicon chemistry; stereochemistry and mechanism of alcohol addition to organosilicon unsaturated species; frontier orbital control of silylene addition to olefins; recent achievements in industrial silicon polymer science.

Bogdan Marciniec, Julian Chojnowski

• Why silicon?; a journey into the chemical country of overloaded supersilyl compounds; air-stable l-silaallenes; co-ordination and reactivity in organosilicon chemistry; stereochemistry and mechanism of alcohol addition to organosilicon unsaturated species; frontier orbital control of silylene addition to olefins; recent achievements in industrial silicon polymer science.