Tetraorganodistannoxanes Simple Chemistry From a Personal Perspective

10 Tetraorganodistannoxanes Simple Chemistry From a Personal Perspective 

Lehrstuhl fUr Anorganische Chemie der Technischen Universitdt, Dortmund, Germany Dedicated to Professor Dainis Dakternieks on the occasion of his retirement. 

Tetraorganodistannoxanes, in all their variations, are usually crystalline, sharp-melting solids that are, depending on the substituent pattern at the tin atoms, sparingly to well soluble in common organic solvents. 

The chemistry of tetraorganodistannoxanes is as old as organotin chemistry itself, with the first reports made by Lowig and Cahours. However, it took more than hundred years until the true nature of this class of compounds was unravelled. 

It is not the scope of this account to thoroughly review all of these activities, because this has been already done by others, but to summarize the contributions we have made to the field and, where possible, to put these in context with related work. 

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Tetraorganodistannoxanes Simple Chemistry From a Personal Perspective 221 2.10.6 Variation of the Electronegative Substituents X and Y... 

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