Germanium bridges

Germanium-bridged [l]ferrocenophanes undergo a number of ring-opening polymerization reactions to yield ferrocene-containing polymers, and the versatility of this interconversion has been reviewed. A -GeMe2-... 

Germanium-bridged complexes, with Zr(IV) and Hf(IV) cyclopentadienyl complexes, 4, 967 fluorenyl complexes, 4, 974 indenyl complexes, 4, 972... 

RING-OPENING POLYMERIZATION OF GERMANIUM-BRIDGED [1]FERROCENOPHANES... 

Two fullerenes were also joined in different fashion by mechanochanical reactions of fullerene with diphenyldichlorosilane and diphenyldichlorogeimane (4.2 equiv.), in the presence of lithium (5.8 equiv.), in milling vessel filled with argon which gives novel bisfullerene products 46 aud 47 possessing silicon (or germanium) bridges (Scheme 7.13) [24,25]. 

Murata Y, Han A, Komatsu K. Mechanochemical synthesis of a novel Cgo dimer connected by a germanium bridge and a single bond. Tetrahedron Lett 2003 44 8199-201. 

Reddy NP, YamasMta H, Tanaka M (1995) Platinum- or palladium-catalysed ring-opening homo- and co-polymerizadon of silicon- and germanium-bridged [l]ferrocenophanes. J Chem Soc Chem Common 1995 2263—2264... 

Reddy, N.P., Yamashita, H., and Tanaka, M. (1995) Platinum-catalyzed or palladium-catalyzed ring-opening homopolymerization of copolymerization of silicon-bridged and germanium-bridged [l]ferrocenophanes. Journal of the Chemical Society. Chemical Communications, 2263. 

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