Technical Notes:

1. A stable silicon(O) compound with a Si=Si double bond.

2. Cleavage of a carbene-stabilized disilicon

3.Dynamic complexation of copper(I) by carbene-stabilized disilicon.

4. Can low-valent silicon com pounds be better transistion metal ligands than phosphines and NHCs?

5. Si=P double bonds: Experimental and theoretical study of an NHC-stabilized phos phasilenylidene.

6.Stabilization of elusive silicon oxides.

7. Addition of small electrophiles to N-heterocyclic- carbene-stabilzed silicon(0).

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