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 …

Small molecules such as H2, N2, CO, NH3, O2 are ubiquitous stable species and their
activation and role in the formation of value-added products are of fundamental importance …

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 …

Since the first heavy alkene analogues of germanium and tin were isolated in 1976, followed
by West's disilene in 1981, the chemistry of stable group 14 dimetallenes and dimetallynes …

Simple two-coordinate acyclic silylenes, SiR2, have hitherto been identified only as transient
intermediates or thermally labile species. By making use of the strong σ-donor properties …

This account describes recent progress (> 2006) in the synthesis and structural
characterization of isolable N-heterocyclic silylenes (NHSi's) and their fascinating reactivities …

The past decade has witnessed staggering progress in the chemistry of compounds with low‐
valent main‐group elements. Although these discoveries are mostly fundamental by nature …

Reversibility is fundamental for transition metal catalysis, but equally for main group
chemistry and especially low-valent silicon compounds, the interplay between oxidative …

A considerable number of isolable silylenes, silicon divalent compounds, have been
synthesized and great efforts have been made of the discovery of their distinctive structural …

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 …