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N‐Heterocyclic Carbene Stabilized Digermanium(0)

Anastas Sidiropoulos, Cameron Jones, Andreas Stasch, Susanne Klein, Gernot Frenking

Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2009 · 323 citations · 37 references

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Abstract

Zero Ge! Reductions of an N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) adduct of GeCl2 with magnesium(I) dimers afford a dimeric compound (see picture), which structural and theoretical studies show to contain a singlet digermanium(0) fragment :GeGe: datively coordinated by two NHC ligands.

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