Chemistry of heavy carbene analogues R2M (M = Si, Ge, Sn). XVII. Reactions of free dimethylgermylene with H-acidic compounds and donors

Article abstract of DOI:10.1016/0022-328X(93)80047-F

The free germylene Me2Ge, 1, inserts smoothly into O-H, S-H, or N-H bonds of water, deuterium oxide, alcohols, carboxylic acids, oximes and phthalimide to yield the (mostly new) substituted organogermanium hydrides of the type X-Me2Ge-H, 3, 5-12.The more