CHEBI:48138 - siloxane

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ChEBI Name siloxane
ChEBI ID CHEBI:48138
Definition Siloxanes are saturated silicon-oxygen hydrides with unbranched or branched chains of alternating silicon and oxygen atoms (each silicon atom is separated from its nearest silicon neighbours by single oxygen atoms). By extension hydrocarbyl derivatives are commonly included.
Stars This entity has been manually annotated by the ChEBI Team.
ChEBI Ontology
Outgoing siloxane (CHEBI:48138) is a silicon molecular entity (CHEBI:26677)
Incoming disiloxane (CHEBI:48141) is a siloxane (CHEBI:48138)
organosiloxane (CHEBI:48150) is a siloxane (CHEBI:48138)
polyhydromethylsiloxane (CHEBI:53341) is a siloxane (CHEBI:48138)
polysiloxane macromolecule (CHEBI:59830) is a siloxane (CHEBI:48138)
silsesquioxane (CHEBI:59827) is a siloxane (CHEBI:48138)
unbranched siloxane (CHEBI:48139) is a siloxane (CHEBI:48138)
IUPAC Name
siloxanes
Synonym Source
siloxanes ChEBI
Last Modified
22 July 2010