Ge—P bond, formation

Very similar studies to those described above have also been carried out for methyl-germane and the same substrates discussed above140,141,149,156,157. While the number of reaction channels is even greater in these cases, these reactions reveal the pathways for Ge—C, Ge—Si, Ge—O, Ge—N and Ge—P bond formation. 

Nature forms various element-silicon-carbon bonds could be identified. Although the Si-C bond is thermodynamically less stable than the Si-O bond, it is kinetically more stable in aqueous biological systems. The challenge in this extraordinary and important field is the development of a biotechnological process for enzymatic Si-C bond formation for the large-scale production of organosilicon compounds The bio-route to silicones ... 

A remarkable variation of the type-I clathrate superstructure is associated with the formation of semiclathrates in the Ge-P-Q (Q = Se, Te) systems [34, 35]. The term semiclathrate was first introduced for hydrates of quaternary ammonium salts, which show general structural and physical properties of normal clathrates but in addition feature a single hydrogen bond between host and guest substructures [50]. Up to now quite a number of semiclathrates-hydrates have been reported in the literature [51] compared to a very limited number of inorganic semiclathrates, which are exclusively cationic semiclathrates. 

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