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A heavier-element ketone at last

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The first heavier main-group-14-element analogue of a ketone, which contains a three-coordinate germanium atom multiply bonded to oxygen, has been prepared and characterized.

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Figure 1: A crowding ligand can stabilize a heavier-element ketone.

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  1. Philip P. Power is in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Davis, Davis, California 95616, USA,

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