Diphenylgermylene (Ph2Ge) and its Ge=Ge doubly bonded dimer, tetraphenyldigermene (6a), have been characterized directly in solution for the first time by laser flash photolysis methods. The germylene is formed via (formal) cheletropic photocycloreversion of 3,4-dimethyl-1,1-diphenylgermacyclopent-3-ene (4a), which is shown to proceed in high chemical (>95%) and quantum yield (phi = 0.62) by st...

Two new cyclic trisilanes containing a SiMePh moiety in the central position have been synthesized, and their photochemistries studied by steady-state and laser flash photolysis methods. The yield of the transient silylene SiMePh increases at the expense of that of the corresponding cyclic silene derivative (formed by photochemical 1,3-silyl migration into the phenyl ring) as the ring size is d...

Platinum nanoparticles (PtNP) either imbedded within (PtNP@GNF) or adsorbed on the surface (PtNP/GNF) of hollow graphitised carbon nanofibres catalyse hydrosilylation reactions inside or outside the nanoreactor respectively. Comparison of the products formed using PtNP@GNF and PtNP/GNF reveals that nanoreactors create an environment promoting the formation of aromatic over aliphatic products in...

A series of in situ-prepared catalytic systems incorporating RuII precursors and bidentate phosphine ligands has been probed the reductive carboxylation ethylene presence triethylsilane as reductant. The production propionate acrylate silyl esters was evidenced by high-throughput screening (HTS) implemented batch reactor techniques. most promising catalyst identified were made Ru(H)(Cl)(CO)(PPh...

The photochemical Si-H bond activation reaction by the group VB, d4 organometallic compound η5-CpV(CO)4 (Cp ) C5H5) has been studied in neat triethylsilane under ambient conditions. The spectral evolutions of the metal-bonded CO stretching bands were monitored from 300 fs to 800 ps following UV photolysis using femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopic methods. The reactive intermediates observed on...

Complexation reactions of titanium tetraethoxide [Ti(OEt)4] and titanium tetra-n-butoxide [Ti(OBu )4] with 3-pentenoic acid (PA) and allylacetoacetate (AAA), in a 1 : 1M ratio, were studied in ethanol solution at room temperature. C-NMR and FTIR spectra showed that all PA and AAA completely reacted with both titanium alkoxides. Hydridosilane compounds such as triethoxysilane and triethylsilane ...