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 …

Key challenges in modern synthetic chemistry include the design of reliable, selective, and
more sustainable synthetic methods, as well as the development of promising candidates for …

The main feedstock for the value-added phosphorus chemicals used in industry and
research is white phosphorus (P4), from which the key intermediate for forming P (III) …

The development of group 15 Lewis acids is an area of active investigation that has led to
numerous advances in anion sensing and catalysis. While phosphorus has drawn …

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

We report a comprehensive assessment of Lewis acidity for a series of carbone-stibenium
and-bismuthenium ions using the Gutmann–Beckett (GB) method. These new antimony and …

We report a combined experimental and theoretical study on the first examples of
carbodicarbene (CDC)‐stabilized bismuth complexes, which feature low‐coordinate cationic …

Three‐coordinate cationic bismuth compounds [Bi (diaryl)(EPMe3)][SbF6] have been
isolated and fully characterized (diaryl=[(C6H4) 2C2H2] 2−, E= S, Se). They represent rare …

Bismepines are 3-fold unsaturated seven-membered rings containing one bismuth atom. A
set of dibenzobismepine complexes have been synthesized and isolated, among them a …

Investigations on the boundaries between the neutral and cationic models of (Mesityl) 2EX
(E= Sb, Bi and X= Cl−, OTf−) have facilitated reversing the Lewis acidity from bismuth to …