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Free or Not, That Is the Question: Silyl and Germyl Cations in Condensed Phases
Author(s) -
Belzner Johannes
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition in english
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 0570-0833
DOI - 10.1002/anie.199712771
Subject(s) - silylation , chemistry , medicinal chemistry , computational chemistry , organic chemistry , polymer chemistry , catalysis
“The search for an isolable silyl cation must continue” was the title of a paper in this journal a few years ago. Recently, J. Lambert et al. reported the latest results of this continued search: the trimesitylsilyl cation is a practically free silyl cation in aromatic solvents. Kinetic and thermodynamic stabilization have now also allowed the isolation of the noncoordinated germirene cation 1 by A. Sekiguchi et al.