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 view of the exciting advancement on silicon-carbon bond-forming transformations
achieved in the past decade, this review intends to show a unified illustration of the recent …

Discrete transition-metal clusters with metal–metal or metal–oxygen–metal bonds represent
a new category of functional materials with numerous unusual properties. For instance, the …

Palladium-based catalysts are of key importance in organic synthesis due to their versatility
and tolerance for a wide range of functional groups. However, their use challenged by …

Transition-metal clusters have attracted great attention in catalysis due to their unique
reactivity and electronic properties, especially for novel substrate binding and activation …

A disilane that contains two diphenylphosphino moieties,(Ph2PCH2) Ph2Si–SiPh2
(CH2PPh), was readily synthesized from the reaction of ClPh2Si–SiPh2Cl with (tmeda) Li …

We report the reactions of an iminophosphonamido-silylene (1) with different palladium
complexes. The reaction of 1 with [Pd (PPh3) 4] furnished a homoleptic tris (silylene) …

The activation of Si-H bonds and/or Si-Si bonds in organosilicon compounds by transition-
metal species plays a crucial role for the production of functional organosilicon compounds …

As an interim paradigm for the catalysts between those based on more conventional
mononuclear molecular Pd complexes and Pd n nanoparticles widely used in organic …

Heptanuclear palladium clusters with six palladium atoms in a planar arrangement were
obtained from the reaction of [Pd (CNtBu) 2] 3 with Ph-substituted cyclotetrasilane or …