posted on 2005-01-17, 00:00authored byTakeaki Iwamoto, Hidenori Masuda, Chizuko Kabuto, Mitsuo Kira
X-ray analysis of the first trigermaallene (3)
and 1,3-digermasilaallene (4) revealed that the trimetallaallene skeletons are not linear but significantly bent,
similarly to the corresponding trisilaallene 2. In contrast
to 2, no dynamic disorder was observed for 3 and 4.