Laboratory for General and Inorganic Chemistry-B, University of Ghent, Krijgslaan 271, B-9000 Ghent Belgium
Abstract:
Successive halogen substitution in methylgermanium fluorides and chlorides leads to different observed trends in the dipole moments of the various compounds. These trends may be explained in terms of hybridisation and polarisability effects. If π bonding exists it is small in the fluorine compounds but possibly somewhat larger in the chlorine compounds.