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 …

Since the discovery of the first stable N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) in the beginning of the
1990s, these divalent carbon species have become a common and available class of …

N-Heterocyclic carbenes (NHC) are nowadays ubiquitous and indispensable in many
research fields, and it is not possible to imagine modern transition metal and main group …

The chemistry of group 14 element (II) hydride complexes has rapidly expanded since the
first stable example of such a compound was reported in 2000. Since that time it has …

Anti-van't Hoff–Le Bel configured p-block element species possess intrinsically high
reactivity and are thus challenging to isolate. Consequently, numerous elements in this …

This third review in a series involving reactions of hydrosilanes and transition metal
complexes and characterization of the products covers the period 2009 thru 2013. After a …

Conspectus N-Heterocyclic olefins (NHOs) have gone from the topic of a few scattered (but
important) reports in the early 1990s to very recently being a ligand/reagent of choice in the …

In recent years bond arrows “!” have been used more and more frequently in the structural
formulae of main-group compounds.[1, 2] Thereby, the terminology of a central atom and …

Isolating stable compounds with low-valent main group elements have long been an
attractive research topic, because several of these compounds can mimic transition metals …

Cyclic structures represent a well-studied structural class due to the novel bonding modes
and reactivity these units possess and the ubiquitous role of cyclic intermediates in a wide …