Introduction for the Special Issue ‘Main Group Chemistry’

Vladimir Lee

One-pot synthesis of α-trifluoromethylstyrenes from aryl ketones and the Ruppert–Prakash reagent

Vitalij V. Levin and Alexander D. Dilman

Stereoselective approach to conjugated enone oximes from aliphatic nitro compounds and sulfur ylides

Rauf T. Akhmirov, Sema L. Ioffe and Alexey Yu. Sukhorukov

Probing the aromaticity in 2,3-pyrido-annulated N-heterocyclic carbene and its heavier analogues

Rinat R. Aysin, Andrey V. Lalov and Sergey S. Bukalov

Methylaluminum complexes based on tridentate 2,6-bis(mercaptoalkyl)pyridine SNS-ligands

Andrey I. Fedulin, Andrei V. Churakov and Kirill V. Zaitsev

Tetrylenes based on polydentate sulfur-containing ligands

Andrey I. Fedulin, Yurii F. Oprunenko, Sergey S. Karlov, Galina S. Zaitseva and Kirill V. Zaitsev

Hypercoordinate germanium complexes with phenanthrene-9,10-diolate ligands: synthesis, structure, and electronic properties

Masato Nanjo, Tomoka Yoneda and Kentaro Iwamatsu

Modification of bidentate bis(N-heterocyclic imine) ligands for low-valent main group complexes

Simone V. Hirmer, Florian S. Tschernuth, Franziska Hanusch, Ramona Baierl, Maximilian Muhr and Shigeyoshi Inoue

A facile route to germanium(IV) binaphthoxide complexes: crystal structure of a chiral resolved germanium(IV) binaphthoxide

Miguel A. Léal, Jr., Arnold L. Rheingold and Charles S. Weinert

New insights into the selective and systematic preparation of arylgermanium hydrides

Ana Torvisco, Melanie Wolf, Michael Traxler, Dietrich Gudat and Frank Uhlig

Highly soluble germanium dioxide as a new source of germanium for derivatization with organic compounds

Artem V. Kansuzyan, Sofia D. Farafonova, Evgeniya A. Saverina, Irina V. Krylova, Victoriya A. Balycheva, Anna Ya. Akyeva, Alexander G. Medvedev, Elena N. Nikolaevskaya, Mikhail P. Egorov, Petr V. Prikhodchenko and Mikhail A. Syroeshkin

η2-Phosphasilene transition metal complexes – a novel building block for hetero-multimetallic complexes

Boris Minkovich, Alexander Kaushansky, Natalia Fridman, Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii and Yitzhak Apeloig

Phosphatetrasilatricyclo[2.1.0.02,5]pentane

Vladimir Ya. Lee, Takahiko Meguro, Olga A. Gapurenko, Ruslan M. Minyaev, Vladimir I. Minkin, Heinz Gornitzka and Akira Sekiguchi

Synthesis of Janus cube containing Si–H moieties

Yasunobu Egawa, Chika Kobuna, Nobuhiro Takeda and Masafumi Unno

Synthesis and structure of (O→Si)-chelate fluorosilane, a novel complex of pentacoordinate silicon with N-acetylvaline

Alexey A. Nikolin, Alexander A. Korlyukov, Eugenia P. Kramarova, Alexandr R. Romanenko, Dmitry E. Arkhipov, Dmitry V. Tarasenko, Sergey Yu. Bylikin, Yuri I. Baukov and Vadim V. Negrebetsky

Skeletal isomerism within 1,3-disilabicyclo[1.1.0]butane and 2,3-disilabuta-1,3-diene derivatives

Takeaki Iwamoto, Akifumi Kobayashi, Naohiko Akasaka and Shintaro Ishida

The influence of differently substituted cyclopentadienyl CpR ligands on the reactivity of [CpRFe(CO)2]2 with yellow arsenic

Hannes Krauss, Gábor Balázs, Michael Seidl and Manfred Scheer

A phenyl-substituted germole dianion and its reaction with hafnocene dichloride

Hanna H. Cramer, Lukas Bührmann, Marc Schmidtmann and Thomas Müller

Computational search for redox isomerism in Ge and Sn bis-chelates with α-diimine ligands

Maxim G. Chegerev, Alyona A. Starikova, Andrey G. Starikov and Vladimir I. Minkin

Elimination of bis(trimethylsilyl)stannylene from tris(trimethylsilyl)stannylated zirconocene and hafnocene chlorides

Roland Fischer and Christoph Marschner

Effective synthesis of dialkyl carbonate from CO2 and alcohols using dibutyltin(IV) catalyst and dehydrating agents

Wahyu S. Putro, Yusuke Munakata, Shinji Shigeyasu, Satoshi Hamura, Seiji Matsumoto, Jun- Chul Choi and Norihisa Fukaya

Synthesis and crystal structure of triphenyltin and lead complexes with organic peroxides

Alexander G. Medvedev, Mikhail Yu. Sharipov, Dmitry A. Grishanov, Artur V. Eshtukov, Andrei V. Churakov, Ivan A. Buldashov, Pavel A. Egorov, Ovadia Lev and Petr V. Prikhodchenko

New coinage metal-coordinated intermetalloid E10 clusters (R3P)AuGe9(Hyp)3Pt(PPh3) (R = Bu, Et)

Christian Gienger, Claudio Schrenk and Andreas Schnepf

Amidinate bromogermylene resulting from carbodiimide insertion into Ar–GeBr bond

Takahiro Sasamori, Tomohiro Sugahara and Norihiro Tokitoh

Synthesis of an antimony rhodamine analog

George Rajendra Kumar, Mengxi Yang, Benyu Zhou and François P. Gabbaï

Reactions of an aluminium(I) diketiminate compound with arenes

Anton Dmitrienko, Melanie Pilkington and Georgii I. Nikonov

Aluminum(III) di- and monochlorides incorporating an N,N'-chelating iminophosphonamide ligand: synthesis and structures

Kazuki Nakaya, Akihiko Ishii and Norio Nakata

Molecular complexes of non-chelating polydentate Lewis bases with group 13 Lewis acids: crystal structure and computed energy of stepwise donor–acceptor bond formation

Nadezhda A. Shcherbina, Igor V. Kazakov, Anna S. Lisovenko, Mariya A. Kryukova, Irina S. Krasnova, Michael Bodensteiner and Alexey Y. Timoshkin

Silver-mediated intramolecular P–C coupling

György Szalóki, Karinne Miqueu and Didier Bourissou

Oxy- and aminoselenation of alkenes utilizing an isolable selenenyl iodide

Satoru Kuwano, Erika Takahashi, Kazuaki Ebisawa, Yo Ishikawa, Shohei Sase and Kei Goto

Near-IR absorbing donor–acceptor charge-transfer gallium complex, an example from non-transition metal chemistry

Arina V. Maleeva, Irina V. Ershova, Olesya Yu. Trofimova, Kseniya V. Arsenyeva, Ilya A. Yakushev and Alexandr V. Piskunov

Improvement of the fluorescence quantum yield of triphenylene by the rotational effect of 4-(trimethylsilyl)phenyl groups

Soichiro Kyushin, Hidetoshi Fujii, Keisuke Negishi and Hideyuki Matsumoto

Synthesis and properties of MQ resins with phenyl groups in monofunctional units

Kirill M. Borisov, Alexandra A. Kalinina, Elena S. Bokova, Marina N. Ilyina, Georgii V. Cherkaev, Elena A. Tatarinova, Sergey A. Milenin, Aleksandra V. Bystrova, Martin Moeller and Aziz M. Muzafarov

Radical oxyamination of vinyl azides with N-hydroxyphthalimide under the action of [bis(trifluoroacetoxy)iodo]benzene

Stanislav A. Paveliev, Oleg O. Segida, Uliana V. Fedorova, Olga M. Mulina and Alexander O. Terent’ev

Gallium(III)-mediated dimerization routes for (5-phenyl-2-thienyl)cyclopropane-1,1-dicarboxylate

Denis D. Borisov, Roman A. Novikov and Yury V. Tomilov