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 seminal discovery of phenyl azide by Grieß in 1864, a variety of organic azides (R–
N3) have been developed and extensively studied. The amenability of azides to a number of …

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 …

Until recently the low-coordinate compounds of the heavier elements of group 14 were
known only as transient, unstable species which were difficult to isolate. However recent …

We showed in 2005 that a digermyne, a main group compound with a digermanium core
and aromatic substituents, reacted directly with hydrogen at 25° C and 1 atm to give well …

In the last two decades, tremendous progress has been made towards the development of
compounds with s-and p-block elements. β-Diketiminate ligands have been widely used in …

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 …

Biradicals are molecules consisting of two unpaired electrons in two nearly degenerate non-
bonding molecular orbitals (NBMOs). They play a central role in bond breaking and …

This paper summarizes recent developments involving the preparation and reactivity of
molecular species stabilized by terphenyl ligands that feature new bonding environments …