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  • Converting dioxygen into more reactive species is extremely useful for direct oxygenation of organic compounds, but doing this with cheap and non-polluting elements is difficult. Now, a carbene-activated silylene has been shown to activate dioxygen, resulting in the isolation of elusive silicon–oxygen species at room temperature.

    • Yun Xiong
    • Shenglai Yao
    • Matthias Driess
    Research
    Nature Chemistry
    Volume: 2, P: 577-580

  • The successful synthesis of acyclic silylenes that are isolable at ambient temperature offers striking new opportunities to use stable silylenes for the activation of important small molecules such as dihydrogen and alkanes — hitherto almost completely the domain of transition metals.

    • Matthias Driess
    News & Views
    Nature Chemistry
    Volume: 4, P: 525-526

  • This Review discusses the advancements and challenges of in situ and operando techniques for deciphering electrochemical organic oxidation reactions, focusing on the structural evolution of catalysts, adsorbed intermediates, transient product species, and the prospects for enhancing mechanistic understanding and catalyst development.

    • Basundhara Dasgupta
    • Debabrata Bagchi
    • Prashanth W. Menezes
    Reviews
    Nature Reviews Chemistry
    Volume: 9, P: 766-789

  • Carbon- and silicon-based triplet diradicals with two unpaired electrons are proposed as intermediates in organic and organometallic reactions but their isolation is challenging. Now, isolable 1,3-disilapyrroles are reported to act as organosilicon-based delocalized triplet diradicals and mediate the cleavage of the CO triple bond and C(sp3)–H bond activation.

    • Yun Xiong
    • Shicheng Dong
    • Matthias Driess
    Research
    Nature Synthesis
    Volume: 2, P: 678-687

  • White phosphorus (P4) is very reactive but is relatively difficult to activate without relying on transition metals. Now, it has been shown that the degradation of P4 can be mediated by two divalent silicon atoms in a bis(silylene) scaffold to give a diphosphorus complex that can be further functionalized and also act as a P− transfer agent.

    • Yuwen Wang
    • Tibor Szilvási
    • Matthias Driess
    Research
    Nature Chemistry
    Volume: 12, P: 801-807