Compounds with Low-Valent p-Block Elements for Small Molecule Activation and Catalysis

Observation of a Thermally Accessible Triplet State Resulting from Rotation around a Main-Group π Bond

(2015) Arseni Kostenko et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Reductive Cleavage of Carbon Monoxide by a Disilenide

(2015) Moumita Majumdar et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Cooperative Bond Activation and Catalytic Reduction of Carbon Dioxide at a Group 13 Metal Center

(2015) Joseph A. B. Abdalla et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

An Aluminum Hydride That Functions like a Transition-Metal Catalyst

(2015) Zhi Yang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Synthesis of B2(SIDip)2and its Reactivity Between the Diboracumulenic and Diborynic Extremes

(2015) Julian Böhnke et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Frustrated Lewis Pair Chemistry: Development and Perspectives

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

Homolytic N–H Activation of Ammonia: Hydrogen Transfer of Parent Iridium Ammine, Amide, Imide, and Nitride Species

(2015) Markus G. Scheibel et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Diborabutatriene: An Electron-Deficient Cumulene

(2014) Julian Böhnke et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Synthesis and Reactivity of a CAAC-Aminoborylene Adduct: A Hetero-Allene or an Organoboron Isoelectronic with Singlet Carbenes

(2014) Fatme Dahcheh et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Germylene Cyanide Complex: A Reagent for the Activation of Aldehydes with Catalytic Significance

(2014) Rahul Kumar Siwatch et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Mechanistic studies of CO2 reduction to methanol mediated by an N-heterocyclic germylene hydride

(2014) Gengwen Tan et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Low Coordinate Germanium(II) and Tin(II) Hydride Complexes: Efficient Catalysts for the Hydroboration of Carbonyl Compounds

(2014) Terrance J. Hadlington et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

An overview of N-heterocyclic carbenes

(2014) Matthew N. Hopkinson et al.   NATURE

Reactions of an Isolable Dialkylsilylene with Carbon Dioxide and Related Heterocumulenes

(2014) Xupeng Liu et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Frustrated Lewis pair chemistry of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur oxides

(2014) Douglas W. Stephan et al.   Chemical Science

Activation of H2by a Multiply Bonded Amido-Digermyne: Evidence for the Formation of a Hydrido-Germylene

(2013) Terrance J. Hadlington et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Applications of pentafluorophenyl boron reagents in the synthesis of heterocyclic and aromatic compounds

(2013) Rebecca L. Melen   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Acyl anion free N-heterocyclic carbene organocatalysis

(2013) Sarah J. Ryan et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Application of a Bis(silylene) Nickel Complex as Precatalyst in C–C Bond Formation Reactions

(2013) Chika I. Someya et al.   CHEMISTRY LETTERS

EH3(E=N, P, As) and H2Activation with N-Heterocyclic Silylene and Germylene Homologues

(2013) Marta Erminia Alberto et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

New insights into small molecule activation by acyclic silylenes: a computational investigation

(2013) Nishamol Kuriakose et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

From Bis(silylene) and Bis(germylene) Pincer-Type Nickel(II) Complexes to Isolable Intermediates of the Nickel-Catalyzed Sonogashira Cross-Coupling Reaction

(2013) Daniel Gallego et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Counterintuitive Mechanisms of the Addition of Hydrogen and Simple Olefins to Heavy Group 13 Alkene Analogues

(2013) Christine A. Caputo et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Theoretical Study of Reactivity of Ge(II)-hydride Compound: Comparison with Rh(I)-Hydride Complex and Prediction of Full Catalytic Cycle by Ge(II)-hydride

(2013) Nozomi Takagi et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Activation of Water, Ammonia, and Other Small Molecules by PCcarbeneP Nickel Pincer Complexes

(2013) Dmitry V. Gutsulyak et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Electron-Rich N-Heterocyclic Silylene (NHSi)–Iron Complexes: Synthesis, Structures, and Catalytic Ability of an Isolable Hydridosilylene–Iron Complex

(2013) Burgert Blom et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Metal-free binding and coupling of carbon monoxide at a boron–boron triple bond

(2013) Holger Braunschweig et al.   Nature Chemistry

Interconnected Bis-Silylenes: A New Dimension in Organosilicon Chemistry

(2012) Sakya S. Sen et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Pushing the σ-Donor Strength in Iridium Pincer Complexes: Bis(silylene) and Bis(germylene) Ligands Are Stronger Donors than Bis(phosphorus(III)) Ligands

(2012) Andreas Brück et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

The Facile Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Carbon Monoxide with an Amido-Digermyne

(2012) Jiaye Li et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A Generic One-Pot Route to Acyclic Two-Coordinate Silylenes from Silicon(IV) Precursors: Synthesis and Structural Characterization of a Silylsilylene

(2012) Andrey V. Protchenko et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Cyanosilylation of Carbonyl Compounds with Trimethylsilyl Cyanide Catalyzed by an Yttrium-Pillared Silicotungstate Dimer

(2012) Yuji Kikukawa et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Organocatalytic umpolung: N-heterocyclic carbenes and beyond

(2012) Xavier Bugaut et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

A Stable Two-Coordinate Acyclic Silylene

(2012) Andrey V. Protchenko et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Isolation of a Stable, Acyclic, Two-Coordinate Silylene

(2012) Brian D. Rekken et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Why the Mechanisms of Digermyne and Distannyne Reactions with H2 Differ So Greatly

(2012) LiLi Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

“Frustrated Lewis pair” hydrogenations

(2012) Douglas W. Stephan   ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY

Ambient-Temperature Isolation of a Compound with a Boron-Boron Triple Bond

(2012) H. Braunschweig et al.   SCIENCE

Group 14 Hydrides with Low Valent Elements for Activation of Small Molecules

(2011) Swadhin K. Mandal et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Extending NHC-Catalysis: Coupling Aldehydes with Unconventional Reaction Partners

(2011) Akkattu T. Biju et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Interaction of Multiple Bonded and Unsaturated Heavier Main Group Compounds with Hydrogen, Ammonia, Olefins, and Related Molecules

(2011) Philip P. Power   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Metal–Ligand Cooperation by Aromatization–Dearomatization: A New Paradigm in Bond Activation and “Green” Catalysis

(2011) Chidambaram Gunanathan et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

The Pentamethylcyclopentadienylsilicon(II) Cation as a Catalyst for the Specific Degradation of Oligo(ethyleneglycol) Diethers

(2011) Kinga Leszczyńska et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Synthesis of a Phosphine-Stabilized Silicon(II) Hydride and Its Addition to Olefins: A Catalyst-Free Hydrosilylation Reaction

(2011) Ricardo Rodriguez et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Reactions of heavier main-group compounds with hydrogen, ammonia, ethylene and related small molecules

(2011) Philip P. Power   CHEMICAL RECORD

Employing homoenolates generated by NHC catalysis in carbon–carbon bond-forming reactions: state of the art

(2011) Vijay Nair et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Frustrated Lewis pairs: Reactions with dihydrogen and other “small molecules”

(2011) Gerhard Erker   COMPTES RENDUS CHIMIE

Organometallic frustrated Lewis pair chemistry

(2011) Gerhard Erker   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

A Digermyne with a Ge–Ge Single Bond That Activates Dihydrogen in the Solid State

(2011) Jiaye Li et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Reactivity of N-Heterocyclic Germylene Toward Ammonia and Water

(2011) Wenyuan Wang et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Bio-Organometallic Chemistry,ansa-Metallocenes, and Frustrated Lewis Pairs: Functional Group Chemistry at the Group 4 Bent Metallocenes

(2011) Gerhard Erker   ORGANOMETALLICS

Zwitterionic and Donor-Stabilized N-Heterocyclic Silylenes (NHSis) for Metal-Free Activation of Small Molecules

(2011) Shenglai Yao et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Chemistry of functionalized silylenes

(2011) Sakya S. Sen et al.   Chemical Science

Stable Cyclic Carbenes and Related Species beyond Diaminocarbenes

(2010) Mohand Melaimi et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Metal-Free Activation of EH3 (E=P, As) by an Ylide-like Silylene and Formation of a Donor-Stabilized Arsasilene with a HSiAsH Subunit

(2010) Carsten Präsang et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Synthesis of a Stable Disilyne Bisphosphine Adduct and Its Non-Metal-Mediated CO2 Reduction to CO

(2010) David Gau et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

An isolable dialkylsilylene and its derivatives. A step toward comprehension of heavy unsaturated bonds

(2010) Mitsuo Kira   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Ammonia N–H activation by a N,N′-diamidocarbene

(2010) Todd W. Hudnall et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Activation of dihydrogen by non-metal systems

(2010) Douglas W. Stephan   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Interstellar molecules: guides for new chemistry

(2010) Swadhin K. Mandal et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

From Limestone to Catalysis: Application of Calcium Compounds as Homogeneous Catalysts

(2010) Sjoerd Harder   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

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

Germanium(ii) hydride mediated reduction of carbon dioxide to formic acid and methanol with ammonia borane as the hydrogen source

(2010) Anukul Jana et al.   DALTON TRANSACTIONS

Activation of Ammonia by a Si═O Double Bond and Formation of a Unique Pair of Sila-Hemiaminal and Silanoic Amide Tautomers

(2010) Yun Xiong et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

N−H Activation of Amines and Ammonia by Ru via Metal−Ligand Cooperation

(2010) Eugene Khaskin et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Main-group elements as transition metals

(2010) Philip P. Power   NATURE

N-heterocyclic carbenes which readily add ammonia, carbon monoxide and other small molecules,

(2010) Ulrich Siemeling et al.   Chemical Science

Stable singlet carbenes as mimics for transition metal centers

(2010) David Martin et al.   Chemical Science

Addition of Hydrogen or Ammonia to a Low-Valent Group 13 Metal Species at 25 °C and 1 Atmosphere

(2009) Zhongliang Zhu et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Frustrated Lewis Pairs: Metal-free Hydrogen Activation and More

(2009) Douglas W. Stephan et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Stable Heavier Carbene Analogues

(2009) Yoshiyuki Mizuhata et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Cleavage of a N−H Bond of Ammonia at Room Temperature by a Germylene

(2009) Anukul Jana et al.   INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Silylenes and germylenes: The activation of H–H bond in hydrogen molecule

(2009) Yong Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF ORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY

Oxidative Addition of Ammonia at a Silicon(II) Center and an Unprecedented Hydrogenation Reaction of Compounds with Low-Valent Group 14 Elements Using Ammonia Borane

(2009) Anukul Jana et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

A Germanium(II) Hydride as an Effective Reagent for Hydrogermylation Reactions

(2009) Anukul Jana et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Room-Temperature Reaction of Carbon Monoxide with a Stable Diarylgermylene

(2009) Xinping Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Reaction of Hydrogen or Ammonia with Unsaturated Germanium or Tin Molecules under Ambient Conditions: Oxidative Addition versus Arene Elimination

(2009) Yang Peng et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

AnN,N′-Diamidocarbene: Studies in C−H Insertion, Reversible Carbonylation, and Transition-Metal Coordination Chemistry

(2009) Todd W. Hudnall et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Addition of H2 to distannynes under ambient conditions

(2008) Yang Peng et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Diarylstannylene Activation of Hydrogen or Ammonia with Arene Elimination

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

The Chemistry of Aluminum(I), Silicon(II), and Germanium(II)

(2008) Selvarajan Nagendran et al.   ORGANOMETALLICS

Heterolytic H2 Activation by Nonmetals

(2007) Alyson L. Kenward et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION