Something germane about germanium: facile access to Ge10 adamantane

Sebastian Karger; Elias Drösemeier; Alexander V. Virovets; Eugenia Peresypkina; Hans-Wolfram Lerner; Thomas Müller; Matthias Wagner

doi:10.1039/D6CC02368A

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Something germane about germanium: facile access to Ge₁₀ adamantane

Sebastian Karger,

^a Elias Drösemeier,

^b Alexander V. Virovets,

^a Eugenia Peresypkina,

^a Hans-Wolfram Lerner,

^a Thomas Müller

*^b and Matthias Wagner

*^a

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^a Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Goethe University Frankfurt, Max-von-Laue-Straße 7, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
E-mail: matthias.wagner@chemie.uni-frankfurt.de

^b Institute of Chemistry, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Carl von Ossietzky-Str. 9-11, Oldenburg, Germany
E-mail: thomas.mueller@uni-oldenburg.de

Abstract

The all-germanium adamantane (Me₃SiGe)₄(GeMe₂)₆ (2) was synthesized from its isomer (Me₃GeSi)₄(GeMe₂)₆ (1) via sila-Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement (overall four steps starting from commercial Me₂GeCl₂, Si₂Cl₆, and [nBu₄N]Cl). The molecular structures of 1 and 2 were characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction; a plausible mechanistic scenario is postulated based on quantum-chemical calculations.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/D6CC02368A
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 17 Apr 2026
Accepted: 09 May 2026
First published: 19 May 2026
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Chem. Commun., 2026, Advance Article

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S. Karger, E. Drösemeier, A. V. Virovets, E. Peresypkina, H. Lerner, T. Müller and M. Wagner, Chem. Commun., 2026, Advance Article , DOI: 10.1039/D6CC02368A

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