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About the Organosilicon Research Center
Under
the leadership of Professor Robert West, the
organosilicon research group at Wisconsin has been a major center for studies of silicon chemistry for
more than forty years. Eighty students have earned Ph.D. degrees in this
group, and more than 120 postdoctoral fellows from 14 different countries
have done research in the group. Major discoveries include soluble polysilane polymers and their semiconductivity (1980), the silicon-silicon
double bond (1981), stable divalent silicon compounds (1994), and a new
model for polymer conformations (2000).
In 1999 the group became the Organosilicon Research Center. With corporate
and government support, the Center's mission is to carry out fundamental
research which will have applications in the organosilicon industry ten
to fifteen years in the future.
Radical Adducts of an N-Heterocyclic Silylene (04/05/04)
In collaboration with Profs. Yitzak Apeloig and Boris Tumanskii of the
Technion in Israel, OSiRC researchers have examined a series of radical adducts
obtained from reaction of an N-Heterocyclic silylene
with various radical sources. Read the
ASAP JACS communication.
Prof. Robert West
listed among Most Cited Chemists of the last two decades (11/23/03) We have just received
information that Prof. Bob West
is listed among the
most cited scientists during the period 1981-1999, according to a recent citation survey by
Thomson ISI.
Citations of published research
are key indicators of the influence of scholarly work. Fewer than one-half
of one percent of researchers who published during that time are listed, giving
some indication of the broad influence of Bob's published works. Twenty-eight
other UW-Madison faculty members are among the most cited researchers in their
fields over two decades. What's new in Silicon Chemistry Volume 686 of Journal of Organometallic Chemistry is devoted to recent developments in the broad field of organosilicon chemistry. A Half Century of Polysilane Chemistry - Special Issue of JOMC (11/15/03)Volume 685 of Journal of Organometallic Chemistry celebrates a half-century of polysilane chemistry, with an introduction by Profs Bob West and Kohei Tamao.
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