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Discovered comparatively late in the history of chemistry, germanium has become one of the most technology-critical elements in modern industry. Germanium and its inorganic and organic derivatives found widespread applications in fiber- and infrared-optics, electronics, polymerization catalysis, solar electric technology, nanotechnology, chemotherapy, and more. Organogermanium compounds containing carbon to germanium chemical bonds, have applications in microelectronics, medicinal and health industries, and beyond.Organogermanium Compounds: Theory, Experiment, and Applications, 2 Volume Set provides a comprehensive review of this class of compounds in two thorough volumes. It covers all modern aspects of these critically important compounds, including theoretical, synthetic, physico-chemical, and applied research. Reflecting the latest breakthroughs in this rapidly growing field, this book promises to serve as the high-level reference for those readers who are interested in organogermanium chemistry.Organogermanium Compounds is a critical reference for researchers and professionals in a wide range of academic and industrial fields working with these fascinating compounds. This will also be helpful for university and college students, at both graduate and undergraduate levels.
Volume 1
Computational and Theoretical Aspects of Structure and Bonding in Doubly Bonded Organogermanium Compounds
Organogermanium Compounds of the Main Group Elements
Transition Metal Complexes of Germanium
Germanium Cages and Clusters
Arylgermanium Hydrides, ArnGeH4-n (n = 1–3) - Synthesis, Characterization, Reactivity
Germylium Ions and Germylium Ion-like Species
Germanium-Containing Radicals
Germanium-Centered Anions
Germylenes
Multiple Bonds to Germanium
Volume 2
Germaaromatic Compounds
Germanium-centered Ion Radicals
Donor-acceptor Stabilization of Species with Low-coordinate Germanium
Synthesis of the Penta- and Hexacoordinate Germanium(IV) Complexes
Dynamic Stereochemistry of Penta- and Hexacoordinate Germanium(IV) Complexes
X-ray Crystallography of Organogermanium Compounds
Organogermanium Photochemistry
Oligo- and Polygermanes
Bioorganic and Medicinal Organogermanium Chemistry