Germyl special

Earlier suggestions of the involvement of free radical intermediates have stimulated the application of spin chemistry methods to the investigation of the detailed mechanism of the photolysis of a-germyl ketones in either polar or nonpolar solvents, in the presence or in the absence of traps of element-centered free radicals. Of special interest are problems of the multiplicity of the reactive state, and the transformations of the element-centered free radicals in the bulk. 

Of special interest are also the reactions of allyl-substituted element-centered radicals. For instance, AIIBu2Gc and dibutyl(2-methylallyl)germyl radicals undergo disproportionation reactions leading to derivatives of tetra- and divalent germanium56. 

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