title: Are ligand-stabilized carboxylic acid derivatives with Ge═Te bonds isolable?
abstract: The stability of ligand-stabilized carboxylic acid derivatives (such as esters, amides, anhydrides, and acid halides) with terminal Ge═Te bonds is highly questionable as there is no report on such compounds. Nevertheless, we are able to isolate germatelluroester [LGe(Te)Ot-Bu] (4), germatelluroamide [LGe(Te)N(SiMe3)2] (5), and germatelluroacid anhydride [LGe(Te)OGe(Te)L] (6) complexes (L = aminotroponiminate (ATI)) as stable species. Consequently, the synthetic details, structural characterization, and UV-vis spectroscopic and theoretical studies on them are reported for the first time.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi , Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110 016, India.
authors.forename: Rahul Kumar
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Siwatch
authors.forename: Dhirendra
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Yadav
authors.forename: Goutam
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mukherjee
authors.forename: Gopalan
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rajaraman
authors.forename: Selvarajan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nagendran