Yun Xiong

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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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• A New Area in Main-Group Chemistry: Zerovalent Monoatomic Silicon Compounds and Their Analogues

  Shenglai Yao;Yun Xiong;Matthias Driess

  140
  Citations

• From NHC-->germylenes to stable NHC-->germanone complexes.

  Shenglai Yao;Yun Xiong;Matthias Driess

  125
  Citations

• From a Phosphaketenyl-Functionalized Germylene to 1,3-Digerma-2,4-diphosphacyclobutadiene.

  Shenglai Yao;Yun Xiong;Tibor Szilvási;Hansjörg Grützmacher

  114
  Citations

• Structural Variation in Transition‐Metal Bispidine Compounds

  Peter Comba;Marion Kerscher;Michael Merz;Vera Müller

  113
  Citations

• The Elusive Silyliumylidene [ClSi:]+ and Silathionium [ClSiS]+ Cations Stabilized by Bis(Iminophosphorane) Chelate Ligand

  Yun Xiong;Shenglai Yao;Shigeyoshi Inoue;Elisabeth Irran

  111
  Citations

• Unexpected Photodegradation of a Phosphaketenyl-Substituted Germyliumylidene Borate Complex

  Yun Xiong;Shenglai Yao;Tibor Szilvási;Ernesto Ballestero-Martínez

  104
  Citations

• Versatile reactivity of a zwitterionic isolable silylene toward ketones: silicon-mediated, regio- and stereoselective C-H activation.

  Yun Xiong;Shenglai Yao;Matthias Driess

  97
  Citations

• Ein cyclisches Silylon (“Siladicarben”) mit einem elektronenreichen Silicium(0)‐Atom

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

  96
  Citations

• Redox Noninnocent Monoatomic Silicon(0) Complex ("Silylone"): Its One-Electron-Reduction Induces an Intramolecular One-Electron-Oxidation of Silicon(0) to Silicon(I).

  Shenglai Yao;Arseni Kostenko;Yun Xiong;Ales Ruzicka

  87
  Citations

• A Series of Isolable Silanoic Thio‐, Seleno‐, and Telluroesters (LSi(X)OR) with Donor‐Supported SiX Double Bonds (L=β‐Diketiminate; X=S, Se, Te)

  Shenglai Yao;Yun Xiong;Markus Brym;Matthias Driess

  87
  Citations

• Silicon Analogues of Carboxylic Acids: Synthesis of Isolable Silanoic Acids by Donor–Acceptor Stabilization

  Yun Xiong;Shenglai Yao;Matthias Driess

  83
  Citations