Structural Organogermanium Chemistry

The rapid developments in theoretical methods and substantial enhancement of computing power over the past decade have had a dramatic impact on all areas of chemistry including organogermanium chemistry. Advances in computational methods applied to germanium chemistry as well as complementary experiments exploring the electronic structure will be discussed. 

Although compilations of organogermanium chemistry are available [7, 8], most review articles focus on the structure and reaction of the organogermanium compounds. For fhis reason I wish to address the synthetic utihty of organogermanium compounds focusing on articles pubhshed after 1990. 

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