The ambient temperature hydrometallations of a variety of unactivated alkene and alkyne substrates using two-coordinate hydrido-tetrylenes, :E(H)(L†) (E = Ge or Sn; L† = extremely bulky amide), are reported.
Two-coordinate group 14 element(ii) hydrides as reagents for the facile, and sometimes reversible, hydrogermylation/hydrostannylation of unactivated alkenes and alkynes