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 …

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 …

Low valent group 14 compounds exhibit diverse structures and reactivities. The employment
of diazaborolyl anions (NHB anions), isoelectronic analogues to N-heterocyclic carbenes …

Abstract Carbynes (R–C:°), species that bear a monovalent carbon atom with three non-
bonding valence electrons, are important intermediates and potentially useful in organic …

Benzene represents the showcase of Hückel aromaticity. The silicon analog,
hexasilabenzene, has consequently been targeted for decades. We now report an intensely …

Heavier group 14 multiple bonds have intrigued chemists since more than a century. The
synthesis of stable compounds with double and triple bonds with silicon, germanium, tin and …

Abstract Vinylidene (H2C= C) is a member of the family of compounds of composition CH
(and isomeric with ethyne, HC≡ CH), but it has been observed only transiently—with a …

The unique isolable silanone complex 3 has been synthesized and isolated in 94% yield by
the remarkably facile oxygenation of the NHC− silylene precursor 2 featuring a Si (II) atom …

A Generic OnePot Route to Acyclic TwoCoordinate Silylenes from Silicon(IV) Precursors:
Synthesis and Structural Characterization Page 1 Silicon Chemistry DOI: 10.1002/anie.201208554 …