Shenglai Yao

Overview

Best Publications

• Zwitterionic and Donor-Stabilized N-Heterocyclic Silylenes (NHSis) for Metal-Free Activation of Small Molecules

  Shenglai Yao;Yun Xiong;Matthias Driess

  407
  Citations

• A new type of N-heterocyclic silylene with ambivalent reactivity.

  Matthias Driess;Shenglai Yao;Markus Brym;Christoph van Wüllen

  394
  Citations

• A cyclic silylone ("siladicarbene") with an electron-rich silicon(0) atom.

  Yun Xiong;Shenglai Yao;Shigeyoshi Inoue;Jan Dirk Epping

  270
  Citations

• An isolable NHC-supported silanone.

  Yun Xiong;Shenglai Yao;Matthias Driess

  252
  Citations

• A cyclic germadicarbene ("germylone") from germyliumylidene.

  Yun Xiong;Shenglai Yao;Gengwen Tan;Shigeyoshi Inoue

  247
  Citations

• A Heterofulvene‐Like Germylene with a Betain Reactivity

  Matthias Driess;Shenglai Yao;Markus Brym;Christoph van Wüllen

  223
  Citations

• From a Stable Silylene to a Mixed‐Valent Disiloxane and an Isolable Silaformamide–Borane Complex with Considerable Silicon–Oxygen Double‐Bond Character

  Shenglai Yao;Markus Brym;Christoph van Wüllen;Matthias Driess

  218
  Citations

• Consecutive insertion of a silylene into the P4 tetrahedron: facile access to strained SiP4 and Si2P4 cage compounds.

  Yun Xiong;Shenglai Yao;Markus Brym;Matthias Driess

  212
  Citations

• Facile Access to an Active γ-NiOOH Electrocatalyst for Durable Water Oxidation Derived From an Intermetallic Nickel Germanide Precursor.

  Prashanth W. Menezes;Shenglai Yao;Rodrigo Beltrán-Suito;J. Niklas Hausmann

  206
  Citations

• Where silylene-silicon centres matter in the activation of small molecules.

  Changkai Shan;Shenglai Yao;Matthias Driess

  206
  Citations

• Low-valent silicon cations with two-coordinate silicon and aromatic character.

  Matthias Driess;Shenglai Yao;Markus Brym;Christoph van Wüllen

  198
  Citations

• From a Molecular 2Fe-2Se Precursor to a Highly Efficient Iron Diselenide Electrocatalyst for Overall Water Splitting.

  Chakadola Panda;Prashanth W. Menezes;Carsten Walter;Shenglai Yao

  195
  Citations

• An Isolable Silanoic Ester by Oxygenation of a Stable Silylene

  Shenglai Yao;Yun Xiong;Markus Brym;Matthias Driess

  192
  Citations

• Chemical Tricks To Stabilize Silanones and Their Heavier Homologues with EO Bonds (E=Si–Pb): From Elusive Species to Isolable Building Blocks

  Yun Xiong;Shenglai Yao;Matthias Driess

  187
  Citations

• N‐Heterocyclic Carbene (NHC)‐Stabilized Silanechalcogenones: NHC→Si(R2)E (E=O, S, Se, Te)

  Shenglai Yao;Yun Xiong;Matthias Driess

  183
  Citations

• From silicon(II)-based dioxygen activation to adducts of elusive dioxasiliranes and sila-ureas stable at room temperature

  Yun Xiong;Shenglai Yao;Robert Müller;Martin Kaupp

  179
  Citations

• Lessons from isolable nickel(I) precursor complexes for small molecule activation.

  Shenglai Yao;Matthias Driess

  174
  Citations

• Divalent Silicon-Assisted Activation of Dihydrogen in a Bis(N-heterocyclic silylene)xanthene Nickel(0) Complex for Efficient Catalytic Hydrogenation of Olefins.

  Yuwen Wang;Arseni Kostenko;Shenglai Yao;Matthias Driess

  156
  Citations

• A “Side-on” Superoxonickel Complex [LNi(O2)] with a Square-Planar Tetracoordinate Nickel(II) Center and Its Conversion into [LNi(μ-OH)2NiL]†

  Shenglai Yao;Eckhard Bill;Carsten Milsmann;Karl Wieghardt

  155
  Citations

• Activation of ammonia by a Si=O double bond and formation of a unique pair of sila-hemiaminal and silanoic amide tautomers.

  Yun Xiong;Shenglai Yao;Robert Müller;Martin Kaupp

  152
  Citations