Patent ID: 8143336

Claim:
A halo-containing aralkylsilane of the generalized structural Formula (1): X 1 X 2 X 3 Si—C(R 1 ) 2−a (Z 1 a )-G-(CR 3−c —Z 2 c ) b (1) wherein: X 1 is a hydrolyzable moiety selected from the group consisting of Cl—, Br—, I—, R 2 O—, R 2 (═O)O—, R 2 2 C═NO—, and R 2 2 NO—, wherein each R 2 is independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, straight, cyclic or branched alkyl, alkenyl, aryl and aralkyl groups wherein each R 2 , other than hydrogen, contains from 1 to 18 carbon atoms and optionally at least one heteroatom selected from the group consisting of oxygen and sulfur; each X 2 and X 3 is independently selected from X 1 and R 3 groups wherein each R 3 is independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, aryl and aralkyl groups wherein each R 3 , other than hydrogen, contains from 1 to 18 carbon atoms and optionally at least one heteroatom selected from the group consisting of oxygen and sulfur; R 1 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, aryl and aralkyl wherein R 1 , other than hydrogen, contains from 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and optionally at least one heteroatom selected from the group consisting of oxygen, sulfur, fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine; each Z 1 and Z 2 is independently a halogen atom selected from the group consisting of F—, Cl—, Br— and I—; G is a monovalent or polyvalent aromatic hydrocarbon group of Formula (2): (−) 1+b C 6 R 4 5−b (2) wherein the six carbon atoms are part of an aromatic ring structure and each occurrence of R 4 is independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, aryl and aralkyl groups wherein each R 4 , other than hydrogen, contains from 1 to 18 carbon atoms; each occurrence of R is independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, aryl and aralkyl wherein each R, other than hydrogen, contains from 1 to 30 carbon atoms; and, a, b and c are integers whereby a is 1; b is from 0 to 5; and c is from 1 to 3.