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Parent Heavy Methylenes: Chemical Tricks to Access Isolable Complexes of Elusive H 2 E: Species (E=Ge and Sn)
Author(s) -
Inoue Shigeyoshi,
Driess Matthias
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201101812
Subject(s) - carbene , lewis acids and bases , methylene , chemistry , transition metal , acceptor , medicinal chemistry , stereochemistry , organic chemistry , catalysis , physics , condensed matter physics
A milestone in main‐group chemistry : Elusive heavy methylene analogues :EH 2 (E=Ge and Sn) were tamed to give isolable species. This feat was achieved by applying the concept of donor–acceptor stabilization: concomitant coordination of a transition metal or monoborane as a Lewis acid and of an N‐heterocyclic carbene as a Lewis base (see scheme).