N-heterocyclic germylene-metal adducts

• Main Author: Leong, Bi Xiang
• Other Authors: So Cheuk Wai
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Chemistry::Inorganic chemistry::Metals
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/68970
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The N-heterocyclic chlorogermylene and chlorostannylene of composition [L"E" ̈Cl] (E = Ge, Sn; L = PhC(NtBu)2) is a Lewis bases due to the stabilization of the metal centres’ empty orbitals being stabilized by the lone pair electrons on the nitrogen atom of the ligand. Further stabilizati...