The stabilization and isolation of highly reactive species has long been the subject of
chemical research. This review will focus on a large and important class of reactive species …

This review is essentially an update of one entitled “π-Bonding and The Lone Pair Effect in
Multiple Bonds Between Heavier Main Group Elements” which was published more than 10 …

In recent decades, it has generally been recognized that carbenes play an important role as
transient intermediates. As a result of a number of stable carbenes having been isolated and …

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 …

Conspectus Monoatomic zerovalent main-group element complexes emerged very recently
and attracted increasing attention of both theoretical and experimental chemists. In …

The carbon–oxygen double bond of ketones (R2C= O) makes them among the most
important organic compounds, but their homologues, heavy ketones with an E= O double …

In contrast to the well‐established chemistry of ketones (R2C O), the reactivity of the
elusive heavier congeners R2E O (E= Si, Ge, Sn, Pb) is far less explored because of the …

Iconic Lappert's heavier tetrylenes E {N (SiMe3) 2} 2 (E= Ge (1), Sn (2), Pb (3)) have been
efficiently prepared from GeCl2·(1, 4-dioxane), SnCl2 or PbCl2 and Li {N (SiMe3) 2} via a …

Stabilization of the central atom in an oxidation state of zero through coordination of neutral
ligands is a common bonding motif in transition‐metal chemistry. However, the stabilization …

The current state of the chemistry of mono‐and bidentate N‐heterocyclic germylenes,
stannylenes, plumbylenes, and related compounds is reviewed with special emphasis …