A rigid redox-active-ligand-supported bis(germylene) as a two-centre six-electron donor.
Jingjing CuiJonas WeiserFelipe FantuzziMaximilian DietzYelyzaveta YatsenkoAndreas HäfnerSamuel NeesIvo KrummenacherMingtao ZhangKai HammondPaula RothWei LuRian D DewhurstBernd EngelsHolger BraunschweigPublished in: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2022)
A naphthyridine diimine (NDI) supported bis(germylene) NDI-Ge 2 containing two dicoordinate, coplanar Ge(II) atoms has been synthesised. Computational investigations on NDI-Ge 2 indicated the two Ge(II) atoms are nearly independent. The EDA-NOCV analysis of the [NDI-Ge 2 ][Fe 2 (CO) 6 ] complex revealed the six-electron donor behavior of NDI-Ge 2 , the first example for group-14-element-based bidentate ligands.
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