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APPLIED ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY Appl. Organometal. Chem. 13, 329–336 (1999) Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2136, USA The octahydrochloride salt of octa(3-aminopro- pyl)octasilsesquioxane can be isolated in 30% yields by controlled hydrolytic condensation of Inorganic–organic hybrid materials are expected to 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane in strongly acidic combine the hardness and abrasion resistance of an methanol. The analytically pure product can be inorganic phase with the compliance and form- filtered from the reaction solution. The product ability of an organic phase, to produce materials was characterized by standard analytical and that are more than simply the sum of the component spectroscopic tools. Efforts were made to explore parts. To do this effectively in a predictable, the potential utility of the product for preparing repeatable and tailorable manner, it is necessary amide and imide compounds that serve as to design components that can be combined at the models of polyimides with the goal of making smallest length scales possible, e.g. the atomic or novel materials, especially those that offer high molecular (nano) scales. Cubic silsesquioxanes strength and that are flame-resistant. Efforts to offer considerable potential for producing hybrid make the octa-acetamide were unsuccessful as materials because the cube itself is the smallest the hexadeca-acetamide was formed in prefer- particle of sand (reinforcing inorganic phase) that ence. These results provided the motivation to can be formed, yet the vertices of these cubes can explore the synthesis of the succinic-anhydride-