Andreas Schnepf

Ge4Br4[Mn(CO)5]4 and Ge6Br2[Mn(CO)5]6: first germanium cluster compounds containing Mn(CO)5 ligands.

Synthesis and Structure of a Ga(84)R(20)(4-) Cluster-A Link between Metalloid Clusters and Fullerenes? This work, which had originally been submitted to Nature in September 1999 and has been presented in part in lectures since January 2000, was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie.

A Ga(8)R(6) Cluster as an Ideal Model for a Metal-Metal Bond? This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and by the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie.

Metalloid aluminum and gallium clusters: element modifications on the molecular scale?

[Ge8[N(SiMe3)2]6]: a ligand-stabilized Ge cluster compound with formally zero-valent Ge atoms.

[Ge9[Si(SiMe3)3]3]-: a soluble polyhedral Ge9 cluster stabilized by only three silyl ligands.

Preparation and precise structural determination of a second Ga84 cluster compound. A first hint for cluster doping and its fundamental consequences in the field of chemistry and physics of nanoscaled metalloid cluster material.

Novel compounds of elements of group 14: ligand-stabilized clusters with "naked" atoms.

Two metalloid Ga22 clusters containing a novel Ga22 core with an icosahedral Ga12 center.

Subvalent compounds featuring direct metal-metal bonds: the Zn-Zn bond in [Cp*2Zn2].

Ge8R6: the ligands define the bonding situation within the cluster core.

Na6[Ge10{Fe(CO)4}8]18 THF: a centaur polyhedron of germanium atoms.

{Ge10Si[Si(SiMe3)3]4(SiMe32)Me}-: a Ge10Si framework reveals a structural transition onto elemental germanium.

Metalloid group 14 cluster compounds: an introduction and perspectives to this novel group of cluster compounds.

[AuGe18{Si(SiMe3)3}6]-: a soluble Au-Ge cluster on the way to a molecular cable?

[Si(SiMe(3))(3)](6)Ge(18)M (M = Cu, Ag, Au): metalloid cluster compounds as unusual building blocks for a supramolecular chemistry.

Si@Al56[N(2,6-iPr2C6H3)SiMe3]12: the largest neutral metalloid aluminum cluster, a molecular model for a silicon-poor aluminum-silicon alloy?

Ge(14)[Ge(SiMe(3))(3)](5)Li(3)(THF)(6): the largest metalloid cluster compound of germanium: on the way to fullerene-like compounds?

[(OtBu)(2)C(6)H(3)](3)Ge(+) a free germyl cation with aryl ligands.

{Ge9R3Cr(CO)5}- and {Ge9R3Cr(CO)3}-: a metalloid cluster (Ge9R3-) as a flexible ligand in coordination chemistry [R=Si(SiMe3)3].

[Ga22{N(SiMe3)2}10]2-: a metalloid cluster compound with a variation of the Ga22 framework.

[Si(SiMe3)3]6Ge18M (M = Zn, Cd, Hg): neutral metalloid cluster compounds of germanium as highly soluble building blocks for supramolecular chemistry.

The formation of a metalloid Sn(10)[Si(SiMe(3))(3)](6) cluster compound and its relation to the alpha<-->beta tin phase transition.

Sn[Si(SiMe3)3]3- and Sn3[Si(SiMe3)3]4: first insight into the mechanism of the disproportionation of a tin monohalide gives access to the shortest double bond of tin.

The formal combination of three singlet biradicaloid entities to a singlet hexaradicaloid metalloid Ge14[Si(SiMe3)3]5[Li(THF)2]3 cluster.

[Si(SiMe3)3]3Ge9M(CO)3(-) (M=Cr, Mo, W): coordination chemistry with metalloid clusters.

[Sn4Si{Si(SiMe3)3}4{SiMe3}2]: a model compound for the unexpected first-order transition from a singlet biradicaloid to a classical bonded molecule.

{Sn9[Si(SiMe3)3]3}− and {Sn8Si[Si(SiMe3)3]3}−: variations of the E9 cage of metalloid group 14 clusters.

{Sn9[Si(SiMe3)3]2}2-: a metalloid tin cluster compound with a Sn9 core of oxidation state zero.

[Ge12{FeCp(CO)2}8{FeCp(CO)}2]: a Ge12 core resembles the arrangement of the high-pressure modification germanium (II).

Dative bonds in main-group compounds: a case for fewer arrows!

Nanoscale molecular silver cluster compounds in gram quantities.

Dative or not dative?

{Sn10 [Si(SiMe3 )3 ]4 }(2-) : A highly reactive metalloid tin cluster with an open ligand shell.

Reactions with a Metalloid Tin Cluster {Sn10[Si(SiMe3)3]4}(2-): Ligand Elimination versus Coordination Chemistry.

Reactions with a Metalloid Tin Cluster {Sn10[Si(SiMe3)3]4}(2-): Ligand Elimination versus Coordination Chemistry.

{Ge9[Si(SiMe3)2(SiPh3)]3}(-): Ligand Modification in Metalloid Germanium Cluster Chemistry.

The Largest Metalloid Group 14 Cluster, Ge18[Si(SiMe3)3]6 : An Intermediate on the Way to Elemental Germanium.

IPr3 Si3 Cl5 (+) : A Highly Reactive Cation with Silanide Character.

Reactivity of [Ge9{Si(SiMe3)3}3]- towards transition metal M2+ cations : coordination and redox chemistry.