Lewis acids play a major role in all areas of chemistry. For a long time, toxic, corrosive and
oxidizing SbF5 was considered as the strongest Lewis acid known. Lately, species …

The chemistry of the p-block elements is a huge playground for fundamental and applied
work. With their bonding from electron deficient to hypercoordinate and formally hypervalent …

The pnictogen bond (PnB) is a noncovalent attraction between electrophilic pnictogen
atoms, originated from the anisotropic distribution of electron density on Pn in a molecular …

Cationic bismuth (III) species [BiR2]+ with weakly coordinating counteranions feature two
monoanionic ligands R (such as aryls, amides, alcoholates or halides), a vacant bismuth …

The N··· S chalcogen bond between SF4 and a series of alkyl and arylamines is examined
via ab initio calculations. This bond is a strong one, with a binding energy that varies from a …

Fluoride anion complexation impacts a number of areas ranging from sensing to
nucleophilic fluorination chemistry. Described here is a new bidentate Lewis acid consisting …

A synthetic method to obtain an arsole‐containing π‐conjugated polymer by the post‐
transformation of the organotitanium polymer titanacyclopentadiene‐2, 5‐diyl unit with an …

As part of our ongoing studies of water tolerant Lewis acids, we have synthesized and
investigated the properties of Sb (C6F5) 3 (O2C6Cl4), a fluorinated stiborane whose Lewis …

A series of new P^ P-chelating ligands constituted by a dicationic−[P (H2Im) 2]+ 2 unit
(H2Im= 1, 3-dimethyl-4, 5-dihydroimidazol-2-ylidene) and a− PPh2 group connected …

The coordination chemistry of the stiboranes Ph4Sb (OTf)(1 a, OTf= OSO2CF3) and Ph3Sb
(OTf) 2 (3) with Lewis bases has been investigated. The significant steric encumbrance of …