Table of Contents
Volume 1 Preface ix
List of Contributors
1 Computational and Theoretical Aspects of Structure and Bonding in Doubly Bonded Organogermanium Compounds 1Miriam Karni and Yitzhak Apeloig
2 Organogermanium Compounds of the Main Group Elements 103Kirill V. Zaitsev
3 Transition Metal Complexes of Germanium 195Kohtaro Osakada
4 Germanium Cages and Clusters 225Tanja Kunz and Andreas Schnepf
5 Arylgermanium Hydrides, Ar n GeH 4-n (n = 1–3) - Synthesis, Characterization, Reactivity 277Ana Torvisco and Frank Uhlig
6 Germylium Ions and Germylium Ion-like Species 299Thomas Müller
7 Germanium-Containing Radicals 339Alexander Hinz and Frank Breher
8 Germanium-Centered Anions 361Christoph Marschner
9 Germylenes 387Norio Nakata xiii
10 Multiple Bonds to Germanium 435Vladimir Ya. Lee
Volume 2
Preface vii
List of Contributors xi
11 Germaaromatic Compounds 477Yoshiyuki Mizuhata and Norihiro Tokitoh
12 Germanium-centered Ion Radicals 507Mikhail P. Egorov, Viatcheslav V. Jouikov, Elena N. Nikolaevskaya, and Mikhail A. Syroeshkin
13 Donor-acceptor Stabilization of Species with Low-coordinate Germanium 561Sakya S. Sen and Herbert W. Roesky
14 Synthesis of the Penta- and Hexacoordinate Germanium(IV) Complexes 597Naokazu Kano
15 Dynamic Stereochemistry of Penta- and Hexacoordinate Germanium(IV) Complexes 629Vadim V. Negrebetsky and Alexander A. Korlyukov
16 X-ray Crystallography of Organogermanium Compounds 667Catherine Hemmert and Heinz Gornitzka
17 Organogermanium Photochemistry 745William J. Leigh
18 Oligo- and Polygermanes 787Charles S. Weinert
19 Bioorganic and Medicinal Organogermanium Chemistry 839Takashi Nakamura, Yasuhiro Shimada, and Katsuyuki Sato
Index 867