Entering new chemical space with isolable complexes of single, zero-valent silicon and germanium atoms

S Yao, Y **ong, A Saddington, M Driess - Chemical Communications, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

A new area in main-group chemistry: zerovalent monoatomic silicon compounds and their analogues

S Yao, Y **ong, M Driess - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2017 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Monoatomic zerovalent main-group element complexes emerged very recently
and attracted increasing attention of both theoretical and experimental chemists. In …

Segmented contracted error-consistent basis sets of quadruple-ζ valence quality for one-and two-component relativistic all-electron calculations

YJ Franzke, L Spiske, P Pollak… - Journal of Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Segmented contracted basis sets of quadruple-ζ quality for exact two-component (X2C)
calculations are presented for the elements H–Rn. These sets are the all-electron relativistic …

The Heaviest Bottleable Metallylone: Synthesis of a Monatomic, Zero‐Valent Lead Complex (“Plumbylone”)

J Xu, S Pan, S Yao, G Frenking… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The elusive plumbylone {[SiII (Xant) SiII] Pb0} 3 stabilized by the bis (silylene)
xanthene chelating ligand 1,[SiII (Xant) SiII= PhC (NtBu) 2Si (Xant) Si (NtBu) 2CPh], and its …

Synthesis and Hydrogenation of Heavy Homologues of Rhodium Carbynes: [(Me3P)2(Ph3P)Rh≡E‐Ar*] (E=Sn, Pb)

M Widemann, K Eichele, H Schubert… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Tetrylidynes [(Me3P) 2 (Ph3P) Rh≡ SnAr*](10) and [(Me3P) 2 (Ph3P) Rh≡
PbAr*](11) are accessed for the first time via dehydrogenation of dihydrides [(Ph3P) …

Organotetrel chalcogenide clusters: Between strong second-harmonic and white-light continuum generation

NW Rosemann, JP Eußner, E Dornsiepen… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Highly directional white-light generation was recently reported for the organotin sulfide
cluster [(StySn) 4S6](Sty= p-styryl). This effect was tentatively attributed to the amorphous …

Heavier congeners of CO and CO 2 as ligands: from zero-valent germanium ('germylone') to isolable monomeric GeX and GeX 2 complexes (X= S, Se, Te)

Y **ong, S Yao, M Karni, A Kostenko, A Burchert… - Chemical …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
In contrast to molecular CO and CO2, their heavier mono-and dichalcogenide homologues,
EX and EX2 (E= Si, Ge, Sn, Pb; X= O, S, Se, Te), are important support materials (eg, SiO2) …

[Hg4Te8(Te2)4]8−: A Heavy Metal Porphyrinoid Embedded in a Lamellar Structure

C Donsbach, K Reiter, D Sundholm… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The use of ionic liquids (CnC1Im)[BF4] with long alkyl chains (n= 10, 12) in the ionothermal
treatment of Na2 [HgTe2] led to lamellar crystal structures with molecular macrocyclic anions …

Barium sulfide under pressure: Discovery of metastable polymorphs and investigation of electronic properties on ab initio level

D Zagorac, K Doll, J Zagorac, D Jordanov… - Inorganic …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Barium sulfide (BaS) is an important precursor to other barium compounds with applications
from ceramics and flame retardants to luminous paints and additives, and recent research …

Taming Silicon Congeners of CO and CO2: Synthesis of Monomeric SiII and SiIV Chalcogenide Complexes

A Burchert, R Müller, S Yao, C Schattenberg… - Angewandte …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The synthesis of the unprecedented monomeric SiII selenide complex (bis‐NHC) Si= Se→
GaCl3 2 (bis‐NHC= bis‐N heterocyclic carbene, H2C [{NC (H)= C (H) N (Dipp)} C:] 2, Dipp …