Acetylene‐linked reactive intermediates of (nitrenoethynyl)‐X‐methylenes, (nitrenoethynyl)‐X‐silylenes, and (nitrenoethynyl)‐X‐germylenes are almost experimentally unreachable (X–M–C≡C–N; X=H (1), CN (2), OH (3), NH2 (4), NO2 (5), and CHO (6); M=C, Si, and Ge). The effects of the electron‐donating and electron withdrawing groups were compared and contrasted at seven levels of theory. All singlet species as ground states with one local open‐shell singlet carbene subunit (π1π1) and another local open‐shell singlet nitrene subunit (π1π1) were found to be more stable than their corresponding triplets including one local open‐shell singlet carbene (δ1π1) (or one local closed‐shell singlet carbene [δ2π0]) and another local triplet nitrene subunit (π1π1) with 45.94–77.996 kcal/mol singlet–triplet energy gap (ΔEs‐t). Their relative silylenes and germylenes made reduction of ΔEs‐t, so the triplet ground states were found for species 3 Si, 4 Si, 5 Si, 2 Ge, 3 Ge, 4 Ge, and 5 Ge. All the singlet silylenes/germylenes formed by one local closed‐shell singlet silylenes/germylenes (δ2π0) and one local closed‐shell singlet nitrene subunit (π2π0). Also, one local closed‐shell singlet silylene/germylene subunit (δ2π0) and one local triplet nitrene subunit (π1π1) were observed for triplet silylenes/germylenes. The singlet and triplet species 3 Si, 4 Si, 3 Ge, and 4 Ge, due to their electrophilic (Si4/Ge4) and nucleophilic (X5) centers, could be identified as intermediates in chemical reactions.

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