“…Depending on the steric demand of the organic substituents they are either polymeric (I, R = Me, Et, Bu, Vinyl, Ph) [1] or trimeric (II, R = CH 2 SiMe 3 , [2] t-Bu, [3,4] Me 2 EtC, [4] (Me 3 Si) 3 C/ Me, [5] 2,6-Me 2 ±C 6 H 3 , [6] 2,6-Et 2 ±C 6 H 3 , [7] 2,4,6-(CF 3 ) 3 ±C 6 H 2 ) [8]. While the six-membered ring structure of the latter compounds, (II), was established by X-ray diffraction studies, the polymeric nature of the former group, (I), was deduced from their virtual insolubility in common organic solvents, 119 Sn Mo È ûbauer, [9,10] and 119 Sn MAS NMR spectroscopy [11] revealing the presence of pentacoordinated tin atoms within these compounds (Chart 1).…”