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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 -
Special Issue of JOMC (11/21/03)
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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