Oxidative addition and reductive elimination are key steps in a wide variety of catalytic
reactions mediated by transition-metal complexes. Historically, this reactivity has been …

Carbenes (R2C:), compounds with a divalent carbon atom containing only six valence shell
electrons, have evolved into a broader class with the replacement of the carbene carbon or …

Since the latter quarter of the twentieth century, main group chemistry has undergone
significant advances. Power's timely review in 2010 highlighted the inherent differences …

Chemical reactions are ubiquitous in the universe, they are at the core of life, and they are
essential for industrial processes. The drive for a deep understanding of how something …

Low valent group 14 compounds exhibit diverse structures and reactivities. The employment
of diazaborolyl anions (NHB anions), isoelectronic analogues to N-heterocyclic carbenes …

Fundamental research on germanium as the central element in compounds for bond
activation chemistry and catalysis has achieved significant feats over the last two decades …

Intramolecular germylene, stannylene, and plumbylene Lewis pairs were reacted with
hexanal and yielded the cyclic addition products only with the germanium and tin reagents …

The synthesis of stable heavier analogues of nitriles as monomeric tetrylene–
phosphinidenes MesTerEP (IDipp)(E= Ge, Sn; MesTer= 2, 6-Mes2C6H3, IDipp= C ([N-(2, 6-i …

The first acceptor-free heavier germanium analogue of an acylium ion,[RGe (O)(NHC) 2] X
(R= MesTer= 2, 6-(2, 4, 6-Me3C6H2) 2C6H3; NHC= IMe4= 1, 3, 4, 5-tetramethylimidazol-2 …

A geometrically constrained phosphine bearing a tridentate NNS pincer ligand is reported.
The effect of the geometric constraint on the electronic structure was probed by theoretical …