PRODUCTION OF TRIORGANOSILANOL

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of efficiently and inexpensively producing triorganosilanol by subjecting a triorganohydrogen silane to react with water in the presence of an inexpensive and homogeneous ruthenium catalyst which has carbonyl groups as ligands and can achieve high activity. SOLUTION: A triorganohydrogensilane represented by the following general formula (1) R1R2R3SiH (1) (wherein R1, R2 and R3 are mutually identical or different and means each a 1-10C unsubstituted or substituted monovalent hydrocarbon group) is characteristically allowed to react with water in the presence of a ruthenium catalyst bearing a carbonyl group as a ligand whereby the objective triorganosilanol is obtained that is represented by the following general formula (2) R1R2R3SiOH (2) (wherein R1, R2 and R3 each same as stated above).