Organogermanium Compounds (eBook)

Vladimir Ya. Lee, PhD is affiliated with the Department of Chemistry at the University of Tsukuba, Japan. He is an expert in organogermanium and main group chemistry, and he has researched and published extensively in this field of science.

Volume 1

Preface ix

List of Contributors

1 Computational and Theoretical Aspects of Structure and Bonding in Doubly Bonded Organogermanium Compounds 1
Miriam Karni and Yitzhak Apeloig

2 Organogermanium Compounds of the Main Group Elements 103
Kirill V. Zaitsev

3 Transition Metal Complexes of Germanium 195
Kohtaro Osakada

4 Germanium Cages and Clusters 225
Tanja Kunz and Andreas Schnepf

5 Arylgermanium Hydrides, Ar n GeH 4-n (n = 1-3) - Synthesis, Characterization, Reactivity 277
Ana Torvisco and Frank Uhlig

6 Germylium Ions and Germylium Ion-like Species 299
Thomas Müller

7 Germanium-Containing Radicals 339
Alexander Hinz and Frank Breher

8 Germanium-Centered Anions 361
Christoph Marschner

9 Germylenes 387
Norio Nakata xiii

10 Multiple Bonds to Germanium 435
Vladimir Ya. Lee

Volume 2

Preface vii

List of Contributors xi

11 Germaaromatic Compounds 477
Yoshiyuki Mizuhata and Norihiro Tokitoh

12 Germanium-centered Ion Radicals 507
Mikhail P. Egorov, Viatcheslav V. Jouikov, Elena N. Nikolaevskaya, and Mikhail A. Syroeshkin

13 Donor-acceptor Stabilization of Species with Low-coordinate Germanium 561
Sakya S. Sen and Herbert W. Roesky

14 Synthesis of the Penta- and Hexacoordinate Germanium(IV) Complexes 597
Naokazu Kano

15 Dynamic Stereochemistry of Penta- and Hexacoordinate Germanium(IV) Complexes 629
Vadim V. Negrebetsky and Alexander A. Korlyukov

16 X-ray Crystallography of Organogermanium Compounds 667
Catherine Hemmert and Heinz Gornitzka

17 Organogermanium Photochemistry 745
William J. Leigh

18 Oligo- and Polygermanes 787
Charles S. Weinert

19 Bioorganic and Medicinal Organogermanium Chemistry 839
Takashi Nakamura, Yasuhiro Shimada, and Katsuyuki Sato

Index 867