Abstract
The cycloadditions of small unsaturated organic molecules, such as ethylene, formaldehyde, and thioformaldehyde, to simple silenes and their germanium analogues were studied by the density functional theory B3LYP/6-311G(d,p) method. The optimized geometry parameters, vibrational frequencies, and energies of the ground states of the reactants and products and those of reaction transition states found were discussed. A lower reactivity of germenes than silenes in the reactions studied was predicted and a non-concerted two-step mechanism of [2+2] cycloadditions suggested.
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