Clusters have been the subject of intense investigations since their famous definition
launched by Cotton in 1963, and the area has expanded ever since. One obvious …

The solution chemistry of Group 14 Zintl-type clusters is of growing interest as a result of
their potential to be used as molecular building blocks for the construction of nanoscale …

We report on the synthesis of an alkane-soluble Zintl cluster,[η4-Ge9 (Hyp) 3] Rh (COD), that
can catalytically hydrogenate cyclic alkenes such as 1, 5-cyclooctadiene and cis …

Zintl anions have been known for more than a century and were studied systematically by
Eduard Zintl in the 1930s. Since then, they have been investigated for their interesting …

Somewhere between fashion and revolutionary substance, nanostructures have come to fill
the popular, scientific, science fiction, and patent literature. The field is nicely …

Deeper investigations on the silylation reaction of the Ge94− Zintl anion are provided. The
reaction of K4Ge9 with two equivalents of ClHyp (Hyp= Si (SiMe3) 3) gives the metalloid …

Single‐site catalysis is an increasingly vital strategy to optimise heterogeneous catalytic
reactions. In an ideal case, the nature and the population of catalytically active sites are all …

We report the synthesis and characterization of the title anion which has a
germanium/palladium cluster core of [Ge18Pd3] and six tri-isopropyl tin substituents. Its two …

Lowering the charge of Zintl anions by (element‐) organic substituents allows their use as
sources of (semi) metal nanostructures in common organic solvents, as realized for group 15 …

The unique three‐dimensional structure of spherical, homoatomic nine‐atom germanium
clusters opens various possibilities for the spatial arrangement of functional groups. Ligands …