Abstract: A process for preparing linear organohydrogensiloxanes. The process comprises contacting an organohydrogendichlorosilane in the presence of trimethylchlorosilane with water to form an M-stopped hydrolyzate. The hydrolyzate is optionally preheated prior to being contacted with an acidic rearrangement catalyst to effect formation of linear organohydrogensiloxanes. The linear organohydrogensiloxanes are separated from cyclic organohydrogensiloxanes and recovered. The cyclic organohydrogensiloxanes may then be recycled to the process for further contact with the acidic rearrangement catalyst for maximum overall conversion rate.

Abstract: A process for preparing linear organohydrogensiloxanes. The process comprises contacting an organohydrogendichlorosilane in the presence of trimethylchlorosilane with water to form an M-stopped hydrolyzate. The hydrolyzate is optionally preheated prior to being contacted with an acidic rearrangement catalyst to effect formation of linear organohydrogensiloxanes. The linear organohydrogensiloxanes are separated from cyclic organohydrogensiloxanes and recovered. The cyclic organohydrogensiloxanes may then be recycled to the process for further contact with the acidic rearrangement catalyst for maximum overall conversion rate.

Abstract: A continuous method is provided for making a mixture of alkylpolyacyloxysilane and alkoxyacyloxysilane which is useful as a curing catalyst for a one part moisture curable silicone RTV. A steady-state mixture of alkylpolyacyloxysilane and alkoxyacyloxysilane is established in the reboiler of a distillation system having a reboiler, a distillation column, and a condenser as a result of the continuous introduction into the distillation column of a mixture of an alkyltrichlorosilane and silicon tetrachloride and the direct feeding of an alcohol such as tertiary butanol into the reboiler. A mixture comprising alkylpolyacyloxysilane and alkoxyacyloxysilane and aliphatic carboxylic is continuously pumped to a collection vessel. The continuous stripping and recycling of the aliphatic carboxylic from the collection vessel results in the continuous production of the desired silane mixture.

Abstract: Siloxane fluids containing novel siloxane polymers prepared from mixtures of disilanes, disiloxanes and silylmethylenes, and a method for recovering fully alkylated linear and cyclic siloxanes with disilane, disiloxane and silylmethylene bonds, such as from methylchlorosilane residue cleavage bottoms, are disclosed.

Abstract: Siloxane fluids containing novel siloxane polymers prepared from mixtures of disilanes, disiloxanes and silylmethylenes, and a method for recovering fully alkylated linear and cyclic siloxanes with disilane, disiloxane and silylmethylene bonds, such as from methylchlorosilane residue cleavage bottoms, are disclosed.

Abstract: There is provided a curable silicone composition, comprising:(a) from 75 to 100 mole percent chemically combined siloxy units having the formula R.sub.3 SiO.sub.0.5, RSiO.sub.1.5 and SiO.sub.2 ; and(b) from 0 to 25 mole percent R.sub.2 SiO units, there being present a number of R units having the general formula: ##STR1## effective for curing said silicone resin upon exposure to ultraviolet radiation in the presence of a photoinitiator or upon heating in the presence of a free radical type catalyst.

Abstract: The instant invention provides a method for making acrylate-functional halosilanes or halosiloxanes comprising reacting an organic acrylate and a halosilane or halosiloxane having at least one silicon-bonded hydrogen atom in the presence of a hydrosilation catalyst and an amount of inhibitor effective for inhibiting the thermal free radical polymerization of said organic acrylate. Acrylate-functional halosilanes and halosiloxanes prepared in accordance with the present method are also provided.

Abstract: An improved process for making an alkyl halide and organosiloxanes from a dialkyldialkoxysilane and a hydrogen halide is disclosed. Dialkyldialkoxysilane and hydrogen halide are simultaneously introduced at respective feed points into a column containing hydrogen halide under reflux in such proportions that the amount of hydrogen halide introduced into the column is at a stoichiometric excess over the dialkyldialkoxysilane. In preferred embodiments, the hydrogen halide is hydrogen chloride; the dialkyldialkoxysilane is dimethyldimethoxysilane; the alkyl halide is methyl chloride; and the organosiloxanes are predominantly of the cyclic type.

Abstract: A process for converting a mixture of at least two different halosilanes having the general formula, R.sub.n SiX.sub.4-n, which are difficult to separate, to at least two different alkoxysilanes having the formula, R.sub.n Si(OR').sub.4-n, where R and R' are saturated or unsaturated alkyl groups of 1 to about 8 carbon atoms or aromatic; X is halogen; and n is 0-3; and separating the alkoxysilanes, is disclosed.

Abstract: A SiH-olefin platinum catalyzed composition having a Durometer Hardness of at least 60 where the novel ingredients are a combination of 10 to 50 parts by weight of fumed silica and 5 to 50 parts by weight of calcined diatomaceous earth per 100 parts of the base vinyl-containing compound. Such a composition is useful for forming molded parts in liquid injection molding machines, both of the plunger type and of the reciprocating screw type.

Abstract: Acyloxysilanes are prepared by reacting a chlorosilane with an aliphatic carboxylic acid in a column at an elevated temperature wherein the aliphatic carboxylic acid in the vapor phase reacts with the chlorosilane in the column. The improvement comprises introducing the carboxylic acid into the column in a plurality of feed streams preferably at such a rate that the carboxylic acid exceeds 1.3 moles per gram atom of silicon-bonded chlorine in the column and removing low boiling reaction by-products and hydrogen chloride gas from the top of the column while collecting the acyloxysilane product dissolved in the aliphatic carboxylic acid at the bottom of the column. At least one feed stream of aliphatic carboxylic acid must be located above the chlorosilane feed stream.