Silicon-containing polymers such as polysilanes, poly- carbosilanes and polysilazanes are of current interest as new materials. New synthetic methods for their production are important not only for material science but also for the study of silicon chemistry, which has hardly been explored in polymerization chemistry to date. We are interested in ring-opening polymerization of cyclic compounds containing an Si-Si bond(s), whose scission is the key step in generating ...
