“…Further to these observations, s-bond metathesis (or protonolysis) has been frequently employed in stoichiometric heavier Group II chemistry to synthesize new organometallic complexes. Examples include the reaction of heavier Group II metal amides [M{N(SiMe 3 ) 2 } 2 (THF) n ] (M = Ca, Sr and Ba; n = 0 or 2) with alcohols, thiols, selenols and tellurols, pyrroles and pyrazoles, terminal alkynes, cyclopentadiene and derivatives, phosphines or arsines to yield the corresponding metal alkoxide (Westerhausen et al 2003;Sarazin et al 2006;Davidson et al 2007), thiolate (Chadwick et al 1998), selenolate and tellurate (Gindelberger & Arnold 1992, 1994, pyrrolide and pyrazolide (Vargas et al 2002;Hitzbleck et al 2004), acetylide (Burkey & Hanusa 1996;Green et al 1999;Avent et al 2005a;Barrett et al 2008b;Schumann et al 2009), cyclopentadienide (Tanner & Hanusa 1994;Tanner et al 1995;Hays et al 1996;Avent et al 2006), phosphide (Westerhausen & Schwarz 1993;Westerhausen 1994;Westerhausen et al 1996aWesterhausen et al ,b, 1998bWesterhausen et al , 2000a or arsenide Westerhausen et al 1998aWesterhausen et al , 2001 species, MX 2 , along with the reaction by-product HN(SiMe 3 ) 2 . In many cases,…”