This review serves to document advances in the synthesis, versatile bonding, and reactivity
of molecular main group metal hydrides within Groups 1, 2, and 12–16. Particular attention …

The history of silyl cations has all the makings of a drama but with a happy ending. Being
considered reactive intermediates impossible to isolate in the condensed phase for …

The articulation of the notion of “frustrated Lewis pairs”(FLPs), which emerged from the
discovery that H2 can be reversibly activated by combinations of sterically encumbered …

The chemistry of the p-block elements is a huge playground for fundamental and applied
work. With their bonding from electron deficient to hypercoordinate and formally hypervalent …

Monatomic zero-valent silicon and germanium complexes (silylones and germylones),
stabilised by neutral donating ligands, emerged only recently as a new class of low-valent …

This review highlights a number of recent developments in the field of main group
enantioselective catalysis. Many essential transformations can be effected catalytically such …

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 outstanding capability of Frustrated Lewis Pair (FLP) catalysts to activate small
molecules has gained significant attention in recent times. Reactivity of FLP is further …

The heterolytic cleavage of dihydrogen constitutes the hallmark reaction of frustrated Lewis
pairs (FLP). While being well‐established for planar Lewis acids, such as boranes or …

A counterintuitive approach to electrophilic aromatic substitution with silicon electrophiles is
disclosed. A strong Brønsted acid that would usually promote the reverse reaction, ie …