This review covers a family of atomistic, mostly quantum chemistry (QC) based
semiempirical methods for the fast and reasonably accurate description of large molecules …

Since the first heavy alkene analogues of germanium and tin were isolated in 1976, followed
by West's disilene in 1981, the chemistry of stable group 14 dimetallenes and dimetallynes …

Conspectus Interactions between sterically crowded hydrocarbon-substituted ligands are
widely considered to be repulsive because of the intrusion of the electron clouds of the …

Since the discovery that the so‐called “double‐bond” rule could be broken, the field of
molecular main group multiple bonds has expanded rapidly. With the majority of …

An update on some recent developments in the bonding of compounds with multiple bonds
between heavier main group elements is the major theme of this review. A brief historical …

In contrast to the well‐developed metal acetylides, the heavier analogues of the type REEM
(E= Si, Ge, Sn, Pb; M= metals) have not been reported to date. Herein, we describe the …

London dispersion (LD) interactions, which stem from long‐range electron correlations
arising from instantaneously induced dipoles can occur between neighboring atoms or …

Understanding the optical properties of gold nanorods (GNRs) in the colloidal state is crucial
to engineering them for versatile applications in many fields. Concomitant gold nanospheres …

Boragermene 3 featuring a double bond between the Ge and dicoordinate B atoms has
been synthesized for the first time by reacting the cyclic (alkyl)(boryl) germylene–PMe3 …

There is emerging consensus that stabilization of weak bonds using bulky substituents
operates not only by steric shielding but also by boosting the dispersive attraction across the …