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Small silicon oxides isolated

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Bulk SiO2 is widespread in nature, and silicon oxide clusters are important to a variety of applications, yet molecular silicon oxides have remained elusive. Two molecular compounds featuring silicon oxide moieties, Si2O3 and Si2O4, have now been isolated by oxidation of a carbene-stabilized disilicon precursor.

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Figure 1: The search for silicon oxides.

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  1. Yitzhak Apeloig is in the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel,

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