Silylium Ions: From Elusive Reactive Intermediates to Potent Catalysts

Silylium-Ion-Promoted Ring-Opening Hydrosilylation and Disilylation of Unactivated Cyclopropanes

(2020) Avijit Roy et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Synthesis of a Counteranion‐Stabilized Bis(silylium) Ion

(2020) Qian Wu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Silylium‐Ion‐Promoted (5+1) Cycloaddition of Aryl‐Substituted Vinylcyclopropanes and Hydrosilanes Involving Aryl Migration

(2020) Tao He et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

An Extensive Set of Accurate Fluoride Ion Affinities for p ‐Block Element Lewis Acids and Basic Design Principles for Strong Fluoride Ion Acceptors

(2020) Philipp Erdmann et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Spectroscopic and Computational Assessment of Silicon’s Electrophilicity in Phosphinosilylium Cations

(2020) Kathleen M. Riley et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Chiral Chalcogenyl‐Substituted Naphthyl‐ and Acenaphthyl‐silanes and their Cations

(2020) Thomas Müller et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Catalysis, FLPs, and Beyond

(2020) Douglas W. Stephan   Chem

B(C6F5)3-Catalyzed Hydrosilylation of Vinylcyclopropanes

(2020) Peng-Wei Long et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Synthesis of Norbornene-Based Phosphine-Stabilized Silylium Ions Behaving as Masked Frustrated Lewis Pairs

(2020) Aymeric Dajnak et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Intramolecular Halo Stabilization of Silyl Cations—Silylated Halonium‐ and Bis‐Halo‐Substituted Siliconium Borates

(2020) Anastasia Merk et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Further Structural Modification of Sulfur-Stabilized Silicon Cations with Binaphthyl Backbones

(2019) Martin Oestreich et al.   SYNTHESIS-STUTTGART

Facile Route to Silver Triarene Borate Salts, [Ag(arene)3][B(C6F5)4]: Thermodynamics, Structure, and Bonding

(2019) Muhammad Farooq Ibad et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Axially Chiral, Electrophilic Fluorophosphonium Cations: Synthesis, Lewis Acidity, and Reactivity in the Hydrosilylation of Ketones

(2019) Lars Süsse et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Nonclassical Applications of closo-Carborane Anions: From Main Group Chemistry and Catalysis to Energy Storage

(2019) S. P. Fisher et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

IDPi Catalysis

(2019) Benjamin List et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

C−F Bond Activation Mediated by Phosphorus Compounds

(2019) Julia M. Bayne et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Metal‐Free Carbocyclization of Homoallylic Silyl Ethers Leading to Cyclopropanes and Cyclobutanes

(2019) Jianbo Zhang et al.   Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry

An Experimental Acidity Scale for Intramolecularly Stabilized Silyl Lewis Acids

(2019) Thomas Müller et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Catalytic Difunctionalization of Unactivated Alkenes with Unreactive Hexamethyldisilane through Regeneration of Silylium Ions

(2019) Qian Wu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

On Silylated Oxonium and Sulfonium Ions and Their Interaction with Weakly Coordinating Borate Anions

(2019) Axel Schulz et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Chiral Modification of the Tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borate Anion with Myrtanyl Groups

(2019) Phillip Pommerening et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Isolation, characterization and reactivity of three-coordinate phosphorus dications isoelectronic to alanes and silylium cations

(2019) Paul Mehlmann et al.   Nature Chemistry

Silylium ions: from controversial beginnings to useful catalysts

(2019) Jay S. Siegel   Nature Reviews Chemistry

Cationic silicon Lewis acids in catalysis

(2019) Johannes C. L. Walker et al.   Nature Reviews Chemistry

Chiral Memory in Silyl-Pyridinium and Quinolinium Cations

(2019) Anthony Fernandes et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Electrophilic Formylation of Arenes by Silylium Ion Mediated Activation of Carbon Monoxide

(2018) Lukas Omann et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Cleavage of Unactivated Si−C(sp3 ) Bonds with Reed's Carborane Acids: Formation of Known and Unknown Silylium Ions

(2018) Qian Wu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Chiral Atropisomeric Indenocorannulene Bowls: Critique of the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog Conception of Molecular Chirality

(2018) Yujia Wang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Bis(perchlorocatecholato)silane-A Neutral Silicon Lewis Super Acid

(2018) Rezisha Maskey et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Catalytic Asymmetric Mukaiyama-Michael Reaction of Silyl Ketene Acetals with α,β-Unsaturated Methyl Esters

(2018) Tim Gatzenmeier et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Features of Protonation of the Simplest Weakly Basic Molecules, SO2 , CO, N2 O, CO2 , and Others by Solid Carborane Superacids

(2018) Evgenii S. Stoyanov et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Air- and water-stable Lewis acids: synthesis and reactivity of P-trifluoromethyl electrophilic phosphonium cations

(2018) V. Fasano et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

A Neutral RuII Hydride Complex for the Regio- and Chemoselective Reduction of N -Silylpyridinium Ions

(2018) Susanne Bähr et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Picking one out of three: selective single C-F activation in trifluoromethyl groups

(2018) Florian Jaroschik   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Catalytic Hydrodefluorination of C−F Bonds by an Air-Stable PIII Lewis Acid

(2018) Saurabh S. Chitnis et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Lewis superacids: classifications, candidates and applications.

(2018) Lutz Greb   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Carba-closo -dodecaborates - Synthesis, Structure, and Energetics

(2018) Alexander Hepp et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Refinement of the Catalyst Backbone of Chiral Intramolecular Silicon-Sulfur Lewis Pairs: Improved Enantioselectivity in the Diels-Alder Reaction of Cyclohexa-1,3-diene and Chalcone Derivatives

(2018) Polina Shaykhutdinova et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Structure of (SiEt 3 ) 2 (B 12 F 12 ). Another example of R 3 Si F E bridge bonding (E=B, Al, Si)

(2018) M. Malischewski et al.   JOURNAL OF FLUORINE CHEMISTRY

1,2,3- versus 1,2-Indeno Ring Fusions Influence Structure Property and Chirality of Corannulene Bowls

(2018) Shi Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Living Group Transfer Polymerization of Renewable α-Methylene-γ-butyrolactones Using Al(C6F5)3 Catalyst

(2018) Lu Hu et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Silyl Ketene Acetals/B(C6F5)3 Lewis Pair-Catalyzed Living Group Transfer Polymerization of Renewable Cyclic Acrylic Monomers

(2018) Lu Hu et al.   MOLECULES

Approaching sub-ppm-level asymmetric organocatalysis of a highly challenging and scalable carbon–carbon bond forming reaction

(2018) Han Yong Bae et al.   Nature Chemistry

The electrophilic aromatic substitution approach to C–H silylation and C–H borylation

(2018) Susanne Bähr et al.   PURE AND APPLIED CHEMISTRY

Thermodynamic versus kinetic control in substituent redistribution reactions of silylium ions steered by the counteranion

(2018) Lukas Omann et al.   Chemical Science

Silylium (R3Si+) Catalyzed Condensative Cyclization for Anhydrosugar Synthesis

(2018) Youngran Seo et al.   ACS Catalysis

Single-Electron Transfer Reactions in Silylium Ion/Phosphane Frustrated and Conventional Lewis Pairs

(2018) Thomas Müller et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Bioinspired Catalytic Generation of Main-group Electrophiles by Cooperative Bond Activation

(2018) Francis Forster et al.   CHIMIA

N-heterocyclic carbene supported halosilylenes: New frontiers in an emerging field

(2018) Nirmala Muthukumaran et al.   COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS

Teaching an old carbocation new tricks: Intermolecular C–H insertion reactions of vinyl cations

(2018) Stasik Popov et al.   SCIENCE

Facile and systematic access to the least-coordinating WCA [(RFO)3Al–F–Al(ORF)3]− and its more Lewis-basic brother [F–Al(ORF)3]− (RF = C(CF3)3)

(2018) Arthur Martens et al.   Chemical Science

Switchable C–H Silylation of Indoles Catalyzed by a Thermally Induced Frustrated Lewis Pair

(2018) Yuxi Han et al.   ACS Catalysis

Isolable Silylene Ligands Can Boost Efficiencies and Selectivities in Metal-Mediated Catalysis

(2018) Yu-Peng Zhou et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Polymerization of Polar Monomers Mediated by Main-Group Lewis Acid–Base Pairs

(2018) Miao Hong et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

IR photodissociation spectra of SixH4x-4+ (x = 4–8): Evidence for Si H Si proton bridges

(2018) Martin Andreas Robert George et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MASS SPECTROMETRY

Scalable and Highly Diastereo- and Enantioselective Catalytic Diels–Alder Reaction of α,β-Unsaturated Methyl Esters

(2018) Tim Gatzenmeier et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Catalytic Access to Bridged Sila-N-heterocycles from Piperidines via Cascade sp3 and sp2 C–Si Bond Formation

(2018) Jianbo Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Achieving Enantioselectivity in Difficult Cyclohexa-1,3-diene Diels–Alder Reactions with Sulfur-Stabilized Silicon Cations as Lewis Acid Catalysts

(2018) Polina Shaykhutdinova et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Phosphorus Coordination Chemistry in Catalysis: Air Stable P(III)-Dications as Lewis Acid Catalysts for the Allylation of C–F Bonds

(2018) Saurabh S. Chitnis et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Confined acids catalyze asymmetric single aldolizations of acetaldehyde enolates

(2018) Lucas Schreyer et al.   SCIENCE

Tricoordinate silyl cations (silylium ions)

(2018) V Ya Lee   RUSSIAN CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Synthesis of a Chiral Borate Counteranion, Its Trityl Salt, and Application Thereof in Lewis-Acid Catalysis

(2017) Phillip Pommerening et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

B(C6F5)3-Catalyzed (Convergent) Disproportionation Reaction of Indoles

(2017) Yuxi Han et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

B(C6F5)3-Catalyzed C–Si/Si–H Cross-Metathesis of Hydrosilanes

(2017) Yuanhong Ma et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Aluminum-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Silylalkynes with Aliphatic C–F Bonds

(2017) Amit K. Jaiswal et al.   ORGANIC LETTERS

Zinc-Catalyzed Dehydrogenative Silylation of Indoles

(2017) Kyohei Yonekura et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

From a (Pseudo) Aluminum Sesquihalide Al2(Et)3(ORF)3 to Me3Si–Cl–Al(ORF)3 (RF = C(CF3)3)

(2017) Arthur Martens et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Arylation of hydrocarbons enabled by organosilicon reagents and weakly coordinating anions

(2017) Brian Shao et al.   SCIENCE

Design and Synthesis of Enantiopure Tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl) Borate Analogues for Asymmetric Counteranion Directed Catalysis

(2017) Benjamin List et al.   SYNLETT

Taming Silylium Ions for Synthesis: N-Heterocycle Synthesis via Stereoselective C–C Bond Formation

(2017) Michel Gagné et al.   SYNLETT

Catalytic C–H Arylation of Unactivated C–H Bonds by Silylium Ion-Promoted C(sp2)–F Bond Activation

(2017) Hendrik F. T. Klare   ACS Catalysis

Et3GeH versus Et3SiH: controlling reaction pathways in catalytic C–F bond activations at a nanoscopic aluminum chlorofluoride

(2017) G. Meißner et al.   Catalysis Science & Technology

A Radical Mechanism for Frustrated Lewis Pair Reactivity

(2017) Liu (Leo) Liu et al.   Chem

London dispersion forces in sterically crowded inorganic and organometallic molecules

(2017) David J. Liptrot et al.   Nature Reviews Chemistry

Taming the Cationic Beast: Novel Developments in the Synthesis and Application of Weakly Coordinating Anions

(2017) Ian M. Riddlestone et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Second Generation of Aldol Reaction

(2016) Wafa Gati et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

C−C Coupling of Benzyl Fluorides Catalyzed by an Electrophilic Phosphonium Cation

(2016) Jiangtao Zhu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Isolation of Labile Pseudohalogen NSO Species

(2016) René Labbow et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Friedel-Crafts-Type Intermolecular C−H Silylation of Electron-Rich Arenes Initiated by Base-Metal Salts

(2016) Qin Yin et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution with Silicon Electrophiles: Catalytic Friedel-Crafts C−H Silylation

(2016) Susanne Bähr et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Single C−F Bond Cleavage of Trifluoromethylarenes with an ortho -Silyl Group

(2016) Suguru Yoshida et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Stacking and Electrostatic Interactions Drive the Stereoselectivity of Silylium-Ion Asymmetric Counteranion-Directed Catalysis

(2016) Trevor J. Seguin et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Chiral Allenes via Alkynylogous Mukaiyama Aldol Reaction

(2016) Aurélien Tap et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Organocatalyzed Group Transfer Polymerization

(2016) Yougen Chen et al.   CHEMICAL RECORD

Phosphorus Lewis acids: emerging reactivity and applications in catalysis

(2016) J. M. Bayne et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Reactive p-block cations stabilized by weakly coordinating anions

(2016) Tobias A. Engesser et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Planar Chiral, Ferrocene-Stabilized Silicon Cations

(2016) Ruth K. Schmidt et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Cationic Si−H−Si Bridges in Polysilanes: Their Detection and Targeted Formation in Stable Ion Studies

(2016) Lena Albers et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

A Highly Reactive Geminal P/B Frustrated Lewis Pair: Expanding the Scope to C−X (X=Cl, Br) Bond Activation

(2016) Kamil Samigullin et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Ferrocenyl-derived electrophilic phosphonium cations (EPCs) as Lewis acid catalysts

(2016) Ian Mallov et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Electrophilic phosphonium cations (EPCs) with perchlorinated-aryl substituents: towards air-stable phosphorus-based Lewis acid catalysts

(2016) Shawn Postle et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Electrophilic phenoxy-substituted phosphonium cations

(2016) James H. W. LaFortune et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Pyridinium–phosphonium dications: highly electrophilic phosphorus-based Lewis acid catalysts

(2016) Julia M. Bayne et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Regioselective and Stereospecific Dehydrogenative Annulation Utilizing Silylium Ion-Activated Alkenes

(2016) Hidekazu Arii et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Boron-Catalyzed Aromatic C–H Bond Silylation with Hydrosilanes

(2016) Yuanhong Ma et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Brønsted Acid-Promoted Formation of Stabilized Silylium Ions for Catalytic Friedel–Crafts C–H Silylation

(2016) Qing-An Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Dispersion-Energy-Driven Wagner–Meerwein Rearrangements in Oligosilanes

(2016) Lena Albers et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

B(C6F5)3-Catalyzed Group Transfer Polymerization of N,N-Disubstituted Acrylamide Using Hydrosilane: Effect of Hydrosilane and Monomer Structures, Polymerization Mechanism, and Synthesis of α-End-Functionalized Polyacrylamides

(2016) Seiya Kikuchi et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Intramolecular Chain Hydrosilylation of Alkynylphenylsilanes Using a Silyl Cation as a Chain Carrier

(2016) Hidekazu Arii et al.   MOLECULES

Enantioselective Diels–Alder Reactions of Cyclohexa-1,3-diene and Chalcones Catalyzed by Intramolecular Silicon–Sulfur Lewis Pairs as Chiral Lewis Acids

(2016) Polina Shaykhutdinova et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Catalytic Access to Indole-Fused Benzosiloles by 2-Fold Electrophilic C–H Silylation with Dihydrosilanes

(2016) Lukas Omann et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Asymmetric Lewis acid organocatalysis of the Diels-Alder reaction by a silylated C-H acid

(2016) T. Gatzenmeier et al.   SCIENCE

The broadening reach of frustrated Lewis pair chemistry

(2016) D. W. Stephan   SCIENCE

Asymmetric counteranion-directed Lewis acid organocatalysis for the scalable cyanosilylation of aldehydes

(2016) Zhipeng Zhang et al.   Nature Communications

Use of Trifluoromethyl Groups for Catalytic Benzylation and Alkylation with Subsequent Hydrodefluorination

(2015) Jiangtao Zhu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Transfer Hydrosilylation

(2015) Martin Oestreich   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Elusive Silane-Alane Complex [SiH⋅⋅⋅Al]: Isolation, Characterization, and Multifaceted Frustrated Lewis Pair Type Catalysis

(2015) Jiawei Chen et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Strongest Acid: Protonation of Carbon Dioxide

(2015) Steven Cummings et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

London Dispersion in Molecular Chemistry-Reconsidering Steric Effects

(2015) J. Philipp Wagner et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Catalytic Ketone Hydrodeoxygenation Mediated by Highly Electrophilic Phosphonium Cations

(2015) Meera Mehta et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Synthesis and Characterization of a Gold Vinylidene Complex Lacking π-Conjugated Heteroatoms

(2015) Robert J. Harris et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A Catalytic SEAr Approach to Dibenzosiloles Functionalized at Both Benzene Cores

(2015) Lukas Omann et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Frustrated Lewis Pair Chemistry: Development and Perspectives

(2015) Douglas W. Stephan et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Triflyloxy-substituted carboranes as useful weakly coordinating anions

(2015) Loren P. Press et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Development and Applications of Disulfonimides in Enantioselective Organocatalysis

(2015) Thomas James et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

A unified survey of Si–H and H–H bond activation catalysed by electron-deficient boranes

(2015) Martin Oestreich et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Activation of Carbon Dioxide by Silyl Triflate-Based Frustrated Lewis Pairs

(2015) Sarah A. Weicker et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Chiral Memory in Silylium Ions

(2015) P. Ducos et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

From unsuccessful H2-activation with FLPs containing B(Ohfip)3 to a systematic evaluation of the Lewis acidity of 33 Lewis acids based on fluoride, chloride, hydride and methyl ion affinities

(2015) Hannes Böhrer et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Frustrated N-heterocyclic carbene–silylium ion Lewis pairs

(2015) Miguel F. Silva Valverde et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

The Ion-Like Supersilylium CompoundtBu3Si-F-Al[OC(CF3)3]3

(2015) Alexandra Budanow et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Cyclic Silylated Onium Ions of Group 15 Elements

(2015) Matti Reißmann et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

C–F Bond Activation by Transient Phosphenium Dications

(2015) Nemanja Đorđević et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Review of recent advances in CF bond activation of aliphatic fluorides

(2015) Qian Shen et al.   JOURNAL OF FLUORINE CHEMISTRY

Silylium dual catalysis in living polymerization of methacrylates viaIn situhydrosilylation of monomer

(2015) Tieqi Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART A-POLYMER CHEMISTRY

1,2-Diphosphonium Dication: A Strong P-Based Lewis Acid in Frustrated Lewis Pair (FLP)-Activations of B–H, Si–H, C–H, and H–H Bonds

(2015) Michael H. Holthausen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Lewis Acidity of Bis(perfluorocatecholato)silane: Aldehyde Hydrosilylation Catalyzed by a Neutral Silicon Compound

(2015) Allegra L. Liberman-Martin et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Frustrated Lewis Pairs

(2015) Douglas W. Stephan   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Formal SiH4 chemistry using stable and easy-to-handle surrogates

(2015) Antoine Simonneau et al.   Nature Chemistry

Chemoselective conversion of biologically sourced polyols into chiral synthons

(2015) Laura L. Adduci et al.   Nature Chemistry

Quantitative Assessment of the Lewis Acidity of Silylium Ions

(2015) Henning Großekappenberg et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Wagner–Meerwein-Type Rearrangements of Germapolysilanes - A Stable Ion Study

(2015) Lena Albers et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

The Cyclohexadienyl-Leaving-Group Approach toward Donor-Stabilized Silylium Ions

(2015) Antoine Simonneau et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Intramolecularly Sulfur-Stabilized Silicon Cations with Chiral Binaphthyl Backbones: Synthesis of Three Different Motifs and Their Application in Enantioselective Diels–Alder Reactions

(2015) Volker H. G. Rohde et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

B(C6F5)3-catalyzed group transfer polymerization of alkyl methacrylates with dimethylphenylsilane through in situ formation of silyl ketene acetal by B(C6F5)3-catalyzed 1,4-hydrosilylation of methacrylate monomer

(2015) Yougen Chen et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Electrophilic bis-fluorophosphonium dications: Lewis acid catalysts from diphosphines

(2015) Michael H. Holthausen et al.   Chemical Science

Mechanism of the cooperative Si–H bond activation at Ru–S bonds

(2015) Timo Stahl et al.   Chemical Science

Intramolecular C–H insertion vs. Friedel–Crafts coupling induced by silyl cation-promoted C–F activation

(2015) Oliver Allemann et al.   Organic Chemistry Frontiers

Frustrated Lewis Pairs: From Concept to Catalysis

(2014) Douglas W. Stephan   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Towards High-Performance Lewis Acid Organocatalysis

(2014) Lars Ratjen et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Asymmetric Disulfonimide-Catalyzed Synthesis of δ-Amino-β-Ketoester Derivatives by Vinylogous Mukaiyama-Mannich Reactions

(2014) Qinggang Wang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Highly Lewis Acidic Dicationic Phosphonium Salt: [(SIMes)PFPh2][B(C6F5)4]2

(2014) Michael H. Holthausen et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Silylium ion-promoted dehydrogenative cyclization: synthesis of silicon-containing compounds derived from alkynes

(2014) Hidekazu Arii et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Chemoselective silyl transfer in the Mukaiyama aldol reaction promoted by super silyl Lewis acid

(2014) Masahiro Sai et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Bypassing a highly unstable frustrated Lewis pair: dihydrogen cleavage by a thermally robust silylium–phosphine adduct

(2014) Thomas J. Herrington et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Functionalization of Fluorinated Molecules by Transition-Metal-Mediated C–F Bond Activation To Access Fluorinated Building Blocks

(2014) Theresia Ahrens et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Dihydrogen Activation by a Silylium Silylene Frustrated Lewis Pair and the Unexpected Isomerization Reaction of a Protonated Silylene

(2014) Annemarie Schäfer et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

A Janus-Headed Lewis Superacid: Simple Access to, and First Application of Me3Si-F-Al(ORF)3

(2014) Michael Rohde et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

The Pentamethylcyclopentadienylsilicon(II) Cation: Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity

(2014) Peter Jutzi   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Synthesis and Properties of the Weakly Coordinating Anion [Me3NB12Cl11]−

(2014) Christoph Bolli et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

[Sb(C6F5)4][B(C6F5)4]: An Air Stable, Lewis Acidic Stibonium Salt That Activates Strong Element-Fluorine Bonds

(2014) Baofei Pan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Direct observation of a borane–silane complex involved in frustrated Lewis-pair-mediated hydrosilylations

(2014) Adrian Y. Houghton et al.   Nature Chemistry

A two-coordinate boron cation featuring C–B+–C bonding

(2014) Yoshiaki Shoji et al.   Nature Chemistry

Synthesis and Structure of the First Bridgehead Silylium Ion

(2014) Rudolf J. Wehmschulte et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Synthesis of the First Persilylated Ammonium Ion, [(Me3Si)3NSi(H)Me2]+, by Silylium-Catalyzed Methyl/Hydrogen Exchange Reactions

(2014) René Labbow et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

B(C6F5)3-Catalyzed Synthesis of Benzofused-Siloles

(2014) Liam D. Curless et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Intramolecularly Sulfur-Stabilized Silicon Cations as Lewis Acid Catalysts

(2014) Volker H. G. Rohde et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Hydrogen-Bridged Digermyl and Germylsilyl Cations

(2014) Natalie Kordts et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

B(C6F5)3-Catalyzed Group Transfer Polymerization of n-Butyl Acrylate with Hydrosilane through In Situ Formation of Initiator by 1,4-Hydrosilylation of n-Butyl Acrylate

(2014) Keita Fuchise et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Myths about the Proton. The Nature of H+ in Condensed Media

(2013) Christopher A. Reed   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

3-Silylated Cyclohexa-1,4-dienes as Precursors for Gaseous Hydrosilanes: The B(C6F5)3-Catalyzed Transfer Hydrosilylation of Alkenes

(2013) Antoine Simonneau et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Catalytic Hydrodefluorination of Fluoromethanes at Room Temperature by Silylium-ion-like Surface Species

(2013) Mike Ahrens et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Synthesis of a Silylium Zwitterion

(2013) Rodrigo Ramírez-Contreras et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

SiH Bond Activation: Bridging Lewis Acid Catalysis with Brookhart’s Iridium(III) Pincer Complex and B(C6F5)3

(2013) Tobias Robert et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Strongest Brønsted Acid: Protonation of Alkanes by H(CHB11F11) at Room Temperature

(2013) Matthew Nava et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Synthesis of Fluorinated Building Blocks by Transition-Metal-Mediated Hydrodefluorination Reactions

(2013) Moritz F. Kuehnel et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Catalytic dehydrogenative Si–N coupling of pyrroles, indoles, carbazoles as well as anilines with hydrosilanes without added base

(2013) C. David F. Königs et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

E–H (E = R3Si or H) bond activation by B(C6F5)3 and heteroarenes; competitive dehydrosilylation, hydrosilylation and hydrogenation

(2013) Liam D. Curless et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Update 1 of: Chemistry of the Carba-closo-dodecaborate(−) Anion, CB11H12–

(2013) Christos Douvris et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Metal-Free Polymerization of Phenylsilane: Tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane-Catalyzed Synthesis of Branched Polysilanes at Elevated Temperatures

(2013) Andreas Feigl et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

The Family of Ferrocene-Stabilized Silylium Ions: Synthesis,29Si NMR Characterization, Lewis Acidity, Substituent Scrambling, and Quantum-Chemical Analyses

(2013) Kristine Müther et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Infrared Spectrum of the Si3H8+Cation: Evidence for a Bridged Isomer with an Asymmetric Three-Center Two-Electron SiHSi Bond

(2013) Martin Andreas Robert George et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Dibenzosilanorbornadienyl Cations and Their Fragmentation into Silyliumylidenes

(2013) Claudia Gerdes et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

C(sp3)–F Bond Activation of CF3-Substituted Anilines with Catalytically Generated Silicon Cations: Spectroscopic Evidence for a Hydride-Bridged Ru–S Dimer in the Catalytic Cycle

(2013) Timo Stahl et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Disulfonimide-Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis of β3-Amino Esters Directly from N-Boc-Amino Sulfones

(2013) Qinggang Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Synthesis of Silaoxazolinium Salts Bearing Weakly Coordinating Anions: Structures and Catalytic Activities in the Aldol Reaction

(2013) Anugu Chandra Sheker Reddy et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Silylium Ion Promoted Reduction of Imines with Hydrosilanes

(2013) Kristine Müther et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Ferrocene-Stabilized Silicon Cations as Catalysts for Diels–Alder Reactions: Attempted Experimental Quantification of Lewis Acidity and ReactIR Kinetic Analysis

(2013) Alexander R. Nödling et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Synthesis of Silylium and Germylium Ions by a Substituent Exchange Reaction

(2013) André Schäfer et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Structure and Solution Reactivity of (Triethylsilylium)triethylsilane Cations

(2013) Samantha J. Connelly et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Silylium Ion/Phosphane Lewis Pairs

(2013) Matti Reißmann et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Recent progress in organocatalytic group transfer polymerization

(2013) Keita Fuchise et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Crystal Structure Determination of the Nonclassical 2-Norbornyl Cation

(2013) F. Scholz et al.   SCIENCE

Lewis Acidity of Organofluorophosphonium Salts: Hydrodefluorination by a Saturated Acceptor

(2013) C. B. Caputo et al.   SCIENCE

Main-Group Lewis Acids for C–F Bond Activation

(2013) Timo Stahl et al.   ACS Catalysis

Kinetics of the Chiral Disulfonimide-Catalyzed Mukaiyama Aldol Reaction

(2013) Zhipeng Zhang et al.   Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry

Deoxygenative Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Methane, Toluene, and Diphenylmethane with [Et2Al]+ as Catalyst

(2012) Manish Khandelwal et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

“Tamed” Silylium Ions: Versatile in Catalysis

(2012) Axel Schulz et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Highly Enantioselective Hetero-Diels-Alder Reaction of 1,3-Bis(silyloxy)-1,3-dienes with Aldehydes Catalyzed by Chiral Disulfonimide

(2012) Joyram Guin et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Silyl Cation Mediated Conversion of CO2into Benzoic Acid, Formic Acid, and Methanol

(2012) André Schäfer et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

IR Spectrum and Structure of a Protonated Disilane: Probing the SiHSi Proton Bridge

(2012) Marco Savoca et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Asymmetric Counteranion-Directed Catalysis: Concept, Definition, and Applications

(2012) Manuel Mahlau et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Electrophilic Aromatic Substitution of Arenes with CO2 Mediated by R3SiB(C6F5)4

(2012) Megumi Konno et al.   CHEMISTRY LETTERS

Enantioselective Hydrosilylation with Chiral Frustrated Lewis Pairs

(2012) Dianjun Chen et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Asymmetric Counteranion-Directed Catalytic Hosomi-Sakurai Reaction

(2012) Manuel Mahlau et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Carbon-Fluorine Bond Activation by Silylium Catalysis

(2012) Hiroshi Takikawa   JOURNAL OF SYNTHETIC ORGANIC CHEMISTRY JAPAN

Silylium Ion-Catalyzed Challenging Diels–Alder Reactions: The Danger of Hidden Proton Catalysis with Strong Lewis Acids

(2012) Ruth K. Schmidt et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Catalytic Trimerization of Bis-silylated Diazomethane

(2012) Muhammad Farooq Ibad et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Two-Coordinate Gallium Ion [tBu3Si-Ga-SitBu3]+ and the Halonium Ions [tBu3Si-X-SitBu3]+ (X = Br, I): Sources of the Supersilyl Cation [tBu3Si]+

(2012) Alexandra Budanow et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

29Si NMR Shielding Tensors in Triphenylsilanes - 29Si Solid State NMR Experiments and DFT-IGLO Calculations

(2012) Erica Brendler et al.   ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ANORGANISCHE UND ALLGEMEINE CHEMIE

Reversible Heterolytic Si–H Bond Activation by an Intramolecular Frustrated Lewis Pair

(2012) Wanli Nie et al.   ZEITSCHRIFT FUR NATURFORSCHUNG SECTION B-A JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL SCIENCES

Facile Catalytic Hydrosilylation of Pyridines

(2011) Dmitry V. Gutsulyak et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A New Synthesis of Triarylsilylium Ions and Their Application in Dihydrogen Activation

(2011) André Schäfer et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

How Lewis acidic is your cation? Putting phosphenium ions on the fluoride ion affinity scale

(2011) John M. Slattery et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

The Correlation of Lewis Acidities of Silyl Triflates with Reaction Rates of Catalyzed Diels-Alder Reactions

(2011) Gerhard Hilt et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Exhaustive Chlorination of [B12H12]2−without Chlorine Gas and the Use of [B12Cl12]2−as a Supporting Anion in Catalytic Hydrodefluorination of Aliphatic C−F Bonds

(2011) Weixing Gu et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Cooperative Catalytic Activation of Si−H Bonds by a Polar Ru−S Bond: Regioselective Low-Temperature C−H Silylation of Indoles under Neutral Conditions by a Friedel−Crafts Mechanism

(2011) Hendrik F. T. Klare et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Competition between π-Arene and Lone-Pair Halogen Coordination of Silylium Ions?

(2011) Paola Romanato et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A Unique Transition Metal-Stabilized Silicon Cation

(2011) Kristine Müther et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Silylium–Arene Adducts: An Experimental and Theoretical Study

(2011) Muhammad Farooq Ibad et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Dinuclear Silylium-enolate Bifunctional Active Species: Remarkable Activity and Stereoselectivity toward Polymerization of Methacrylate and Renewable Methylene Butyrolactone Monomers

(2011) Yuetao Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Rearrangement/Fragmentation Reactions of Oligosilanes with Aluminum Chloride

(2011) Harald Wagner et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Disilylfluoronium Ions—Synthesis, Structure, and Bonding

(2011) Nicole Lühmann et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Activation of Alkyl C–F Bonds by B(C6F5)3: Stoichiometric and Catalytic Transformations

(2011) Christopher B. Caputo et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Triethylsilyl Perfluoro-Tetraphenylborate, [Et3Si+][F20-BPh4–], a Widely Used Nonexistent Compound

(2011) Matthew Nava et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Proton-Catalyzed, Silane-Fueled Friedel-Crafts Coupling of Fluoroarenes

(2011) O. Allemann et al.   SCIENCE

Disulfonimide-Catalyzed Asymmetric Vinylogous and Bisvinylogous Mukaiyama Aldol Reactions

(2010) Lars Ratjen et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Oxidation of closo-[B12Cl12]2− to the Radical Anion [B12Cl12].− and to Neutral B12Cl12

(2010) René T. Boeré et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

CF Activation of Fluorobenzene by Silylium Carboranes: Evidence for Incipient Phenyl Cation Reactivity

(2010) Simon Duttwyler et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A catalytic CC bond-forming reaction between aliphatic fluorohydrocarbons and arylsilanes

(2010) Nicole Lühmann et al.   APPLIED ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY

Preparation and characterization of [CF3SO3(SiMe3)2]+[B(C6F5)4]−

(2010) Axel Schulz et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Self-regeneration of a silylium ion catalyst in carbonyl reduction

(2010) Kristine Müther et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

N-Heterocyclic Carbene Analogues with Low-Valent Group 13 and Group 14 Elements: Syntheses, Structures, and Reactivities of a New Generation of Multitalented Ligands†

(2010) Matthew Asay et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Pseudohalonium Ions: [Me3Si-X-SiMe3]+(X=CN, OCN, SCN, and NNN)

(2010) Axel Schulz et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Calculated Hydride and Fluoride Affinities of a Series of Carbenium and Silylium Cations in the Gas Phase and in C6H5Cl Solution

(2010) Dmitry G. Gusev et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

High-Speed Living Polymerization of Polar Vinyl Monomers by Self-Healing Silylium Catalysts

(2010) Yuetao Zhang et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Silaimidazolium and silaimidazolidinium ions

(2010) Annemarie Schäfer et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Application of the sila-Friedel–Crafts reaction to the synthesis of π-extended silole derivatives and their properties

(2010) Shunsuke Furukawa et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Silylium ions in catalysis

(2010) Hendrik F. T. Klare et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Synthesis, Characterization, and Crystal Structures of Silylium Compounds of the Weakly Coordinating Dianion [B12Cl12]2−

(2010) Mathias Kessler et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Direct Carboxylation of Arenes and Halobenzenes with CO2by the Combined Use of AlBr3and R3SiCl

(2010) Koji Nemoto et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Hyperconjugation in β,β′-silyl substituted vinyl cations - indications from IR spectroscopy

(2010) Andrea Klaer et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Hydrodefluorination and Other Hydrodehalogenation of Aliphatic Carbon−Halogen Bonds Using Silylium Catalysis

(2010) Christos Douvris et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Intramolecular Halogen Stabilization of Silylium Ions Directs Gearing Dynamics

(2010) Paola Romanato et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Living Polymerization of Naturally Renewable Butyrolactone-Based Vinylidene Monomers by Ambiphilic Silicon Propagators

(2010) Garret M. Miyake et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Stability, Reactivity, and Strategies for the Synthesis of Silyliumylidenes, RSi:+. A Computational Study

(2010) Thomas Müller   ORGANOMETALLICS

Synthesis of Pentafluorophenyl Silver by Means of Lewis Acid Catalysis: Structure of Silver Solvent Complexes§

(2010) Marcus Kuprat et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

H+, CH3+, and R3Si+Carborane Reagents: When Triflates Fail

(2009) Christopher A. Reed   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Synthesis and Crystal Structure of a Silyl-Stabilized Allyl Cation Formed by Disruption of an Arene by a Protonation-Hydrosilylation Sequence

(2009) Simon Duttwyler et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Catalytic CF Activation and Hydrodefluorination of Fluoroalkyl Groups

(2009) Gregor Meier et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Taming the Silylium Ion for Low-Temperature Diels-Alder Reactions

(2009) Hendrik F. T. Klare et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Superacidity of Boron Acids H2(B12X12) (X=Cl, Br)

(2009) Amy Avelar et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Bissilylated Halonium Ions: [Me3SiXSiMe3][B(C6F5)4] (X=F, Cl, Br, I)

(2009) Mathias Lehmann et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A Powerful Chiral Counteranion Motif for Asymmetric Catalysis

(2009) Pilar García-García et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Stable Heavier Carbene Analogues

(2009) Yoshiyuki Mizuhata et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Trisilyl-Substituted Vinyl Cations

(2009) Andrea Klaer et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Synthesis and characterization of synthetically useful salts of the weakly-coordinating dianion [B12Cl12]2−

(2009) Vanessa Geis et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Dynamics of Si−H−Si Bridges in Agostically Stabilized Silylium Ions

(2009) Samat Tussupbayev et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

Consistent van der Waals Radii for the Whole Main Group

(2009) Manjeera Mantina et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A

Shuttling Germanium Atoms into Branched Polysilanes

(2009) Harald Wagner et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Development of a Sila-Friedel−Crafts Reaction and Its Application to the Synthesis of Dibenzosilole Derivatives

(2009) Shunsuke Furukawa et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Thermodynamic Studies and Hydride Transfer Reactions from a Rhodium Complex to BX3Compounds

(2009) Michael T. Mock et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Chelate Restrained Boron Cations for Intermolecular Electrophilic Arene Borylation

(2009) Alessandro Del Grosso et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Reduction of Alkyl Halides by Triethylsilane Based on a Cationic Iridium Bis(phosphinite) Pincer Catalyst: Scope, Selectivity and Mechanism

(2008) Jian Yang et al.   ADVANCED SYNTHESIS & CATALYSIS

Synthesis of 2,6-Diarylphenyldimethylsilyl Cations: Polar-π Distribution of Cation Character

(2008) Simon Duttwyler et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Conclusive Evidence for an SN2-Si Mechanism in the B(C6F5)3-Catalyzed Hydrosilylation of Carbonyl Compounds: Implications for the Related Hydrogenation

(2008) Sebastian Rendler et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Structural and Spectroscopic Characterization of an Unprecedented Cationic Transition-Metal η1-Silane Complex

(2008) Jian Yang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Can the hexamethylhydrazinium dication [Me3N–NMe3]2+ be prepared?

(2008) Yun Zhang et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Molecular Structure of a Cyclopropyl Substituted Vinyl Cation

(2008) Andrea Klaer et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Scope and Mechanism of the Iridium-Catalyzed Cleavage of Alkyl Ethers with Triethylsilane

(2008) Jian Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Structure−Reactivity Relationships in Bimolecular-Activated Monomer Polymerization of (Meth)acrylates Using Oxidatively Activated Group 14 Ketene Acetals

(2008) Yuetao Zhang et al.   MACROMOLECULES

A Free Silylium Ion: A Cyclotetrasilenylium Ion with Allylic Character

(2008) Shigeyoshi Inoue et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Hydrodefluorination of Perfluoroalkyl Groups Using Silylium-Carborane Catalysts

(2008) C. Douvris et al.   SCIENCE

Ambient temperature ring-opening polymerisation (ROP) of cyclic chlorophosphazene trimer [N3P3Cl6] catalyzed by silylium ions

(2007) Yun Zhang et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Controlled Polymerization of Methacrylates to High Molecular Weight Polymers Using Oxidatively Activated Group Transfer Polymerization Initiators

(2007) Yuetao Zhang et al.   MACROMOLECULES