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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 23, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Norbert Auner, Frankfurt am Main, DE;
Martin Grasmann, Berlin, DE;
Assignee:
Dow Corning Limited, Barry, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C08G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
528 37 ; 528 40 ; 528 14 ; 556450 ; 556452 ; 556430 ;
Abstract
A silacyclobutane compound having the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are independently chloro, triorganosiloxy, organooxy, triorganosilyl, or a monovalent hydrocarbon group; R.sup.3 is a monovalent hydrocarbon group free of conjugated aliphatic unsaturation, triorganosilyl, or hydrogen; and R.sup.4 is a monovalent saturated hydrocarbon group; provided that when R.sup.3 is hydrogen, neither R.sup.1 nor R.sup.2 is chloro or organooxy. Methods of preparing the silacyclobutane compounds, silane polymers containing at least one silacyclobutane unit, and siloxane polymers containing at least one silacyclobutane unit.