A New Area in Main-Group Chemistry: Zerovalent Monoatomic Silicon Compounds and Their Analogues

complexes. Our achievements in the chemistry of metallylones demonstrate that the characteristic of monatomic zerovalent silicon and its analogues can provide novel reaction patterns for access to unprecedented species and even extends the series of functional groups of these elements. With this, we can envision that more interesting zerovalent complexes of the main-group elements with unprecedented reactivity will follow in the near future.