Keywords: Gallium / Subvalent compounds / Subhalides / Metal-metal bonds / Carboxylato ligands The organoelement subhalide R 2 Ga 2 I 2 (1) [R = C(SiMe 3 ) 3 ] reacted with one equivalent of different lithium carboxylates LiO 2 CR [R = -C 6 H 5 , -4-Me 3 C-C 6 H 4 , -4-BrC 6 H 4 , -3,5-Me 2 C 6 H 3 , -CMe 3 ] by the selective replacement of only one iodine atom. Bifunctional digallium compounds were formed, in which one chelating carboxylato group bridges the Ga-Ga bonds. Thus, both gallium atoms are coordinated to one car-
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