Transition-metal—germanium bonds reactions with

Formation of Germanium-Transition and Inner Transition Metal Bond 5 8.4.7. Reaction with Transition- or Inner-Transition-Metal Hydrides... 

Silicon and germanium hydrides react with cobalt, manganese and rhenium carbonyls affording complexes having a silicon (or germanium)-metal bond. These reactions, described previously for inactive compounds have been used in the synthesis of optically active silyl and germyl-transition metals ... 

Electrophiles such as halogens may cleave the transition metal-silicon (or germanium) bonds. We have already seen that in the case of the hydrido complexes they induce deinsertion reactions with retention of configuration at silicon (cf. Sect. 3.1). 

Inter-ring metal migrations, dynamic NMR studies, 1, 412 Intracyclic germanium-carbon bond formation large rings, 3, 706 small rings, 3, 703 Intramolecular Alder-ene reactions with metals, 10, 576 with palladium, 10, 568 with rhodium, 10, 575 with ruthenium, 10, 572 with transition metal catalysts, 10, 568 Intramolecular allylations, in cyclizations, with indium compounds, 9, 679... 

Treatment of Mo(II) , W(II) and Au(I) complexes with one equivalent of GeCl2 dioxane, in CH2CI2 at —78°C and subsequent wanning to room temperature, resulted in rapid and clean insertion of germylenes into the metal-hydrogen or metal-chlorine bond . This is a convenient route to synthesize functionalized transition-metal germanium compounds The reaction is exemphfied in equations 18 and 19. 

Two additional areas are under study at this time. The reaction of fluorine with transition-metal alkyls appears to be quite promising An attempt is also being made to preserve metal-metal bonds during direct fluorination. It has been found that the reaction of fluorine with hexamethyldigermane leads primarily to tris(trisfluoromethyl)-germanium fluoride (34). 

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