Organogermanium Compounds Theory, Experiment, and Applications, 2 Volumes

Devoted to the chemistry of organogermanium compounds, which are critical for modern industrial technology and applications, this book deals with all related research fields: theoretical, synthetic, physico-chemical, and applied. With up-to-date contents and descriptions of fundamental breakthroughs in the field, the author also briefly describes milestone historical achievements.

Vladimir Ya. Lee, PhD, is a Lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Tsukuba. He has held visiting professorships at several international universities, is a reviewer for many leading journals, and has over 130 publications to his credit along with the book Organometallic Compounds of Low-Coordinate Si, Ge, Sn and Pb: From Phantom Species to Stable Compounds (Wiley, 2010).

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