A flash photolysis bismuth atom laser

Methylbismuth: an organometallic bismuthinidene biradical

“…In order to access the elusive class of non-stabilized organometallic bismuthinidenes, we aimed at a "top-down approach", more specically the homolytic cleavage of Bi-C bonds from the well-dened organometallic precursor BiMe 3 (1) as shown in Scheme 2. The long-known BiMe 3 has been investigated from many different perspectives, [19][20][21] including its application in chemical vapor deposition, where the abstraction of all its methyl groups is targeted. 22,46 In a recent study, it was demonstrated that the abstraction of a single methyl group can be achieved by dissociative photoionization of 1, i.e.…”