Dedicated to Professor Cameron Jones on the occasion of his 60 th birthdayIn this work, we have prepared a bulky ligand supported chlorogermylene (LGeCl) [L = C 6 H 4 -2-{C(Me)=NAr*}; Ar* = (2,6bis(diphenylmethyl)-4-methylphenyl)] (2), chlorostannylene (LSnCl) (3), four-coordinate germylene (L 2 Ge) (4) and fourcoordinate stannylene (L 2 Sn) (5). Subsequently, the reactions of 4 and 5 with elemental selenium and tellurium led to the isolation of respective heavy ketones (7-9). All the compounds are well characterized by multinuclear NMR techniques and single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies.