Je. Bender et al., SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF A NOVEL DIARYLGERMYLENE CONTAINING ELECTRON-WITHDRAWING GROUPS, Organometallics, 16(12), 1997, pp. 2743-2745
The fluoroarylgermylene is[2,4,6-tris(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]germanium
(II) was synthesized by the reaction of 2 equiv of [2,4,6-tris(trifluo
romethyl)phenyl]lithium with GeCl2 . dioxane. This monomeric germylene
has good thermal stability, despite having the least sterically encum
bering set of stabilizing ligands of any alkyl germylene isolated to d
ate.