Conspectus Silylenes are divalent silicon species with an unoccupied 3p orbital and one
lone pair of electrons at the SiII center. Owing to the excellent σ-donating ability of amidinato …

The geometry at an element centre can generally be predicted based on the number of
electron pairs around it using valence shell electron pair repulsion (VSEPR) theory …

Diiminopyridyl metal complexes, first characterized several decades ago, found practical
application in 1998 when they were used as precatalysts in coordinative ethylene …

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 …

While the implication of the aromaticity concept has been dramatically expanded to date
since its emergence in 1865, the classical [4n+ 2]/4n-electron counting protocol still plays an …

Energy decomposition analysis (EDA) methods bridge the gap between electronic structure
calculations and conceptual interpretations of molecular interactions. The recently …

N-aryl and N-alkyl substituted pyridine-2, 6-diimines (pdi) are useful tridentate ligands that
are redox-active and can coordinate to main group elements, transition metal ions …

The monoatomic zero‐valent tin complex (stannylone){[SiII (Xant) SiII] Sn0} 5 stabilized by a
bis (silylene) xanthene ligand,[SiII (Xant) SiII= PhC (NtBu) 2Si (Xant) Si (NtBu) 2CPh], and its …

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

Using the chelating C, C′‐bis (silylenyl)‐ortho‐dicarborane ligand, 1, 2‐(RSi) 2‐1, 2‐
C2B10H10 [R= PhC (NtBu) 2], leads to the monoatomic zero‐valent Ge complex …