Hydrides of germanium

II. ORGANOMETALLIC HYDRIDES OF GERMANIUM(IV), TIN(IV) AND LEAD(IV) A. Organogermanium Hydrides... 

Suggestive of carbon and silicon is the existence of hydrides of germanium, though they are much fewer in number. The compound GeH4... 

Bellama, J.M., Macdiarm, Ag. (1968). Synthesis of hydrides of germanium phosphoms arsenic and antimony by solid-phase reaction of corresponding oxide with lithium aluminum hydride. Inorg. Chem. 1 2070-2. 

Stock s designs for chemical vacuum line apparatus were widely disseminated. A leading American inorganic chemist, Professor L. M. Dennis at Cornell University became familiar with Stock s apparatus in the course of trips to Europe and he utilized chemical vacuum lines to investigate the hydrides of germanium in the late 1920 s(l). About this same time chemical vacuum line techniques were... 

The apparatus shown in Fig. 6 may be used for the preparation of the hydrides of germanium, tin, arsenic,... 

Germanes, the hydrides of germanium, are somewhat similar to silanes in their chemical and physical properties. The general formula Ge Ho2 +2 ( = 1-5) recalls that of C H2 +2 for alkanes and that of Si H2 +2 for silanes. Germanes are less volatile and flammable than silanes and are somewhat less reactive toward alkali. The two known stan-nanes, SnH4 and Sn2H6, are much less stable than silanes and the one plumbane, PbH4, decomposes readily. In fact, its existence is still questioned. 

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