Nanoscale silicon materials possess properties with great promise for energy and optoelectronic applications. The discovery of new silicon-based building blocks will expand the silicon chemist’s synthetic toolbox. We report the synthesis of a “meta”-like cyclohexasilane building block. Dehydrocoupling polymerization of this cyclohexasilane yields a mixture of macrocycles and linear oligomers. <sup>1</sup>H and <sup>29</sup>Si NMR spectroscopy provide evidence for a high symmetry macromolecule. Comparison to calculated and experimental infrared spectra of model systems support the structural assignment.

Directional building blocks provide curvature in poly(cyclohexasilane)

256th National Meeting (2018)

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