Understand the chemistry of organogermanium compounds with this thorough and cutting-edge reference
Discovered comparatively late in the history of chemistry, germanium has become one of the most technology-critical elements in modern industry. Germanium and its inorganic and organic derivatives found widespread applications in fiber- and infrared-optics, electronics, polymerization catalysis, solar electric technology, nanotechnology, chemotherapy, and more. Organogermanium compounds containing carbon to germanium chemical bonds, have applications in microelectronics, medicinal and health industries, and beyond.
Organogermanium Compounds: Theory, Experiment, and Applications, 2 Volume Set provides a comprehensive review of this class of compounds in two thorough volumes. It covers all modern aspects of these critically important compounds, including theoretical, synthetic, physico-chemical, and applied research. Reflecting the latest breakthroughs in this rapidly growing field, this book promises to serve as the high-level reference for those readers who are interested in organogermanium chemistry.
Organogermanium Compounds readers will also find: - 19 chapters produced by leading global experts - Descriptions of pivotal historical achievements in organogermanium research - Coverage of the latest computational, synthetic, and applied breakthroughs
Organogermanium Compounds is a critical reference for researchers and professionals in a wide range of academic and industrial fields working with these fascinating compounds. This will also be helpful for university and college students, at both graduate and undergraduate levels.
Table of Contents
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
