Issue 87, 2013
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Chemical Communications

Why compete when you can share? Competitive reactivity of germanium and phosphorus with selenium†

Eric C. Y. Tam,a   Lisa M. Harris,a   Elliot S. Borren,b   J. David Smith,a   Matthias Lein,b   Martyn P. Coles*b  and  J. Robin Fulton*b  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, UK

b School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand
E-mail: j.robin.fulton@vuw.ac.nz, martyn.coles@vuw.ac.nz
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Abstract

Addition of one equivalent of selenium to a germanium–phosphanide complex results in insertion of selenium into the Ge–P bond, not oxidation at germanium or phosphorus. Addition of excess selenium results in oxidation at phosphorus, although of germanium oxidation is still observed.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CC45954C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
05 Aug 2013
Accepted
10 Sep 2013
First published
17 Sep 2013

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 10278-10280

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Why compete when you can share? Competitive reactivity of germanium and phosphorus with selenium

E. C. Y. Tam, L. M. Harris, E. S. Borren, J. D. Smith, M. Lein, M. P. Coles and J. R. Fulton, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 10278 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC45954C

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