The history of silyl cations has all the makings of a drama but with a happy ending. Being
considered reactive intermediates impossible to isolate in the condensed phase for …

Motivated by the discovery of main group Lewis acids that could compete or possibly
outperform the ubiquitous organoboranes, several groups, including ours, have engaged in …

IUPAC defines Lewis acidity as the thermodynamic tendency for Lewis pair formation. This
strength property was recently specified as global Lewis acidity (gLA), and is gauged for …

Anti-van't Hoff–Le Bel configured p-block element species possess intrinsically high
reactivity and are thus challenging to isolate. Consequently, numerous elements in this …

Steric and electronic effects play a very important role in chemistry, as these effects influence
the shape and reactivity of molecules. Herein, an easy-to-perform approach to assess and …

A method for deoxyfluorination of aliphatic primary, secondary, and tertiary alcohols is
reported, employing a nontrigonal phosphorus triamide for base-free alcohol activation in …

Noncovalent interactions like halogen, chalcogen, and pnictogen bonding are known for a
very long time. During the last decade, these interactions have found different applications in …

We describe nonmetal adducts of the phosphorus center of terminal phosphinidene
complexes using classical C-and N-ligands from metal coordination chemistry. The nature of …

A bidentate pnictogen bonding host‐system based on 1, 8‐diethynylanthracene was
synthesized by a selective tin‐antimony exchange reaction and investigated regarding its …

The three‐coordinate aluminum cations ligated by N‐heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs)[(NHC)⋅
AlMes2]+[B (C6F5) 4]−(NHC= IMeMe 4, IiPrMe 5, IiPr 6, Mes= 2, 4, 6‐trimethylphenyl) were …