Abstract

“The search for an isolable silyl cation must continue” was the title of a paper in this journal a few years ago. Recently, J. Lambert et al. reported the latest results of this continued search: the trimesitylsilyl cation is a practically free silyl cation in aromatic solvents. Kinetic and thermodynamic stabilization have now also allowed the isolation of the noncoordinated germirene cation 1 by A. Sekiguchi et al.

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