Research Article
N-Heterocyclic Germylenes: Structural Characterisation of Some Heavy Analogues of the Ubiquitous N-Heterocyclic Carbenes
Table 1
Summary of key structural parameters for compounds 1 to 3.
| | | Compound 1 | Compound 2 | Compound 3 |
| | Ge-N Å | 1.862(2) | 1.861(3) | 1.835(4) | | 1.869(2) | 1.875(4) | 1.861(4) | | N-Ge-N ° | 83.74(10) | 83.55(16) | 85.2(2) |
| | -N-Ge ° | 125.53(17) | 125.2(3) | 130.2(3) | | 126.86(18) | 126.2(3) | 131.0(4) |
| | -N-Ge ° | 114.48(19) | 112.7(3) | 113.1(5) | | 113.6(2) | 113.9(3) | 114.8(4) |
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