Аннотация:Catenated compounds based on Group 14 Elements (E = Si, Ge, Sn) due to the
presence of σ-conjugation along the chain of E atoms have useful optical,
semiconducting and other physical and chemical properties.
The development of effective ways of synthesis of such compounds, investigation
of their properties and structure, establishment of “structure – property” relationships
may be regarded as main goals of chemistry in this field. In this report the recent
results obtained in our scientific group for catenated Group 14 derivatives are presented.