Organogermanium compounds, 1,2-anionic

Germanes hydride, 2 76 reactivity of, 2 87 Germanium anionic cluster, 24 227 azides, preparation, 9 138 properties, 9 135-136, 139, 141 binary carbide not reported, 11 211 carbides, preparation of, 11 163 chalcogenide halides, 23 390 chlorides, mass spectra of, 18 248, 249 complexes, xenon fluoride reactions, 46 85 compounds, see also Organogermanium compounds... 

Some organogermanium compounds were first synthesized by interaction of different RHal species and electrochemically generated anion GeCh- (equation 7). 

In the course of their investigations on organogermanium compounds with anion transport capability, these authors noticed that aryl substituent(s) on germanium are effective in enhancing its Lewis acidity. Since the observed anion transport capability is most likely due to the hypercoordination in which the germanium atom can be involved with anions, chloride ion in particular, a suitable method of evaluation of germanium hypercoordination is needed. 

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