2 SiCl 2 Eugene Rochow set out to make methylsilicone polymer. This is what chemists do. Rochow stumbled through the magnesium-based synthesis scheme introduced first by Kipping then studied by Hyde . He obtained sticky fluids. But Dr. rochow needed a better method to make the methylsilicones - some pathway that could be converted to a low cost, commercial process.
Successful chemists think by analogy.
Dr. Rochow remembered the work of Dr. Alfred Stock, in Germany. 2H 2 Suppose he reacted silicon with methyl chloride, CH 3 Cl. Successful chemists must be observant. Well, Rochow went to the laboratory and treated silicon with CH 3 Cl. The experiment was disappointing at first.