
%0 Journal Article
%A Foster, SP 
%A Leung, KF 
%A Mackay, KM 
%A Thomson, RA 
%T Preparations and Spectroscopic Properties of Some Germanes of the Types Me<sub>x</sub>Ge<sub>3</sub>H<sub>8-x</sub>, Me<sub>x</sub>Ge(GeH<sub>3</sub>)<sub>4-x</sub> and Me<sub>x</sub>Si(GeH<sub>3</sub>)<sub>4-x</sub>
%J Australian Journal of Chemistry
%D 1986/07/01
%V 39
%N 7
%P 1089-1099
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/CH9861089
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/CH9861089 
%X The preparations of MexSi(GeH3)4-x (x = 3, 2, 1, 0) and MexGe(GeH3)4-x(x = 3, 2, 1), by reaction of dry GeH3Na with the corresponding chloride, have been refined. 1,2-Me2Ge3H6, 2,2-Me2Ge3H6 and 1,2,2-Me3Ge3H5 have been prepared by the successive reactions of I2 and MeMgI on MeGe3H7. Further unstable or minor products indicated in these reactions are (GeH3)4Si, 1,1,2,2-Me4Ge3H4 and 1,2,2,3-Me4Ge3H4 together with traces of other permethyltrigermanes . Vibrational, 1H n.m.r . and mass spectra of these species are reported together with 29Si and 73Ge n.m.r . observations on the MexSi(GeH3)4-x family. 
