.

List of Scientific and Professional Publications
Updated 28 May, 2008

A. Theses

1.Yitzhak Apeloig, "Stereochemistry and Ion Pairs in SN1 Vinylic Substitution",
M.Sc. Thesis, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1969.
2. Yitzhak Apeloig, "Intermediates in SN1 Vinylic Substitution",
Ph.D. Thesis, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, May 1974.

B.    Original papers in Professional Journals, with referees:

1. Zvi Rappoport and Yitzhak Apeloig, Vinylic Cations from Solvolysis. II. The Stereochemistry of the SN1 Reaction of 1,2-Dianisyl-2-Phenylvinyl Halides, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 91, 6734-6742 (1969).
2.    Zvi Rappoport and Yitzhak Apeloig, Vinylic Cations from Solvolysis. IV. Absence of -Aryl Participation in the Solvolysis of Triarylvinyl Halides, Tetrahedron Letters,  1817-1820 (1970).
3.   Zvi Rappoport and Yitzhak Apeloig, Vinylic Cations from Solvolysis. VI. Cis-Trans Isomerization as a Tool for Studying Vinyl Cation Formation, Tetrahedron Letters, 1845-1848 (1970).
4.   Zvi Rappoport, Addy Pross and Yitzhak Apeloig, Vinylic Cations from Solvolysis. XVI. High k(cis)/k(trans) Reactivity Ratio in the Solvolysis of a-Bromo--tert-butyl-p-methoxy-styrenes, Tetrahedron Letters, 2015-2018 (1973).
5.     Zvi Rappoport, Joseph Kaspi and Yitzhak Apeloig, Vinylic Cations from Solvolysis. XIX. Low Tosylate/Bromide Reactivity Ratios in Vinylic Solvolysis. Do k(OTs)/k(Br) Ratios Measure the Polarity of the Solvolysis Transition State, J. Am Chem. Soc., 96, 2612-2614 (1974).
6.  Zvi Rappoport and Yitzhak Apeloig, Vinylic Cations from Solvolysis. XXII. High Stereo-selectivity in the Synthesis of Ion Pairs in the Solvolysis of (E)-a-Bromo--deutrio-p-methoxystyrenehttp://www.technion.ac.il/~apeloig/papers/6.pdf, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 96, 6428-6435 (1974).
7.   Zvi Rappoport and Yitzhak Apeloig, Vinylic Cations from Solvolysis. XX. Ion Pairs and Free Ions in the Solvolysis and Isomerization of 1,2-Dianisyl-2-Phenylvinyl Halides and Mesylates. Use of Cis-Trans Isomerization as a Mechanistic Tool, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 97, 821-836 (1975).
8.   Zvi Rappoport and Yitzhak Apeloig, Vinylic Cations from Solvolysis. XXI. Solvent Effects on the External Ion Return and the Internal Return in Several Vinylic Solvolyses, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 97, 836-842 (1975).
9.  Yitzhak Apeloig, Paul v. R. Schleyer, J. Stephen Binkley, and John A. Pople, Stabilization of Perpendicular Olefins. The Structure and Rotational Barriers of Singlet and Triplet 1,1-Dilithio-ethylenes,  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 98, 4332-4334 (1976).
10.   John B. Collins, James D. Dill, Eluvathingal D. Jemmis, Yitzhak Apeloig, Paul v. R. Schleyer, Rolf Seeger, and John A. Pople, Stabilization of Planar Tetracoordinate Carbon,  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 98, 5419-5427 (1976).
11.  Yitzhak Apeloig, Paul v. R. Schleyer, J. Stephen Binkley, John A. Pople, and
William L. Jorgensen, The Cyclic Structure of Monomeric Dilithio-acetylene, Tetrahedron Letters, 3923-3926 (1977).
12.  Yitzhak Apeloig, Paul v. R. Schleyer, and John A. Pople, Molecular Orbital Theory of the Electronic Structure of Molecules. 33. The Effect of a-Electro-Positive Substituents on the Stabilities of Carbenium Ions,  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 99, 1291-1296 (1977).
13.  Yitzhak Apeloig, Paul v. R. Schleyer, and John A. Pople, Molecular Orbital Theory of the Electronic Structure of Molecules. 35. -Substituent Effects on the Stabilities of Ethyl and Vinyl Cations. Comparison with Iso-electronic Methyl Boranes. The Relative Importance of Hyper-conjugative and Inductive Effects,  J.  Am. Chem. Soc., 99, 5901-5909 (1977).
14.   Yitzhak Apeloig, Paul v. R. Schleyer, and John A. Pople, Molecular Orbital Theory of the Electronic Structure of Molecules. 36. A Theoretical Study of Several a-Substituted Vinyl Cations, J. Org. Chem., 42, 3004-3011 (1977).
15.Yitzhak Apeloig and Paul v. R. Schleyer, A Theoretical Investigation of a-Substituted Silicenium Ions, Tetrahedron Letters, 4647-4650 (1977).
16. Yitzhak Apeloig and Ruth Schreiber, A Theoretical Ab Initio Investigation of Substituted Alkylidene Carbenes, Tetrahedron Letters, 4555-4558 (1978).
17.  Zvi Rappoport, Jeremy Greenblatt and Yitzhak Apeloig, 1,10,1,4- and 1,2-Eliminations and 1,5- and 1,7- Rearrangements in the Reactions of Substituted 9-Anisylidene-9,10-Dihydro- anthracenes and Anthrones in Acetic Acid, J. Org. Chem., 44, 3687-3694 (1979).
18.  Yitzhak Apeloig and Zvi Rappoport, The Importance of Hyperconjugation in Nucleophilic Vinylic Substitution, J.  Am. Chem. Soc., 101, 5095-5098 (1979).
19. Yitzhak Apeloig, Ruth Schrieber and Peter J. Stang, Exocyclic Alkylidene Carbenes - An Ab Initio Theoretical Study, Tetrahedron Letters, 411-414 (1980).
20.  Yitzhak Apeloig, Tim Clark, Alex A. Kos, Eluvathingal D. Jemmis, and
Paul v. R. Schleyer, Geometries and Energies of Dilithioethylene Isomers and Vinyl Lithium. An Ab Initio Study,  Israel  J. of Chem., Special Issue on Stereochemistry, 20, 43-50 (1980).
21.  Yitzhak Apeloig, John B. Collins, Dieter Cremer, Thomas Bally, Edwin Haselbach,
John A. Pople, Jayaraman Chandrasekhar, and Paul v. R. Schleyer, A Theoretical Study of the Isomeric Cyclopropylidenemethyl and 1-Cyclobutenyl Cations. Unusually Stable Vinyl Cations, J. Org. Chem., 45, 3496-3501 (1980).
22.  Zvi Rappoport, Yitzhak Apeloig and Jeremy Greenblatt, Vinylic Cations from Solvolysis. 29. Solvolysis of 9-(a-Bromoarylidene)anthrones as a Probe to the Reactivity-Selectivity Relationship in Solvolysis Reactions, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 102, 3837-3848 (1980).
23.  Yitzhak Apeloig and Ruth Schrieber, The SN and PN  Electronic States of the Succinimidyl Radical. Can Nitrogen-Centered Radicals Have SN Ground States? An Ab Initio Study, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 102, 6144-6146 (1980).
24. Pnina Ashkenazi, Menahem Kaftory, Dorit Arad, Yitzhak Apeloig, and David Ginsburg, Propellanes. LXII. The Endo- and Exo-Adducts of 11-Cyano-1,6-methano[10]annulene with 4-Methyl-1,2,4-triazoline-3,5-dione, Helv. Chim. Acta, 64, 579-581 (1981).
25.  Yitzhak Apeloig, Negative Fluorine Hyperconjugation. A Theoretical Reexamination, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Comm., 396-398 (1981).
26.  Yitzhak Apeloig, Dorit Arad, Dieter Lenoir, and Paul v. R. Schleyer, Remote Inductive Effects on Secondary and Tertiary 2-Norbornyl Solvolysis Rates, Tetrahedron Letters, 879-882 (1981).
27.  Yitzhak Apeloig, Wilfried Franke, Zvi Rappoport, Helmut Schwarz, and Daniel Stahl, Dissociative Ionization of Aryl-Substituted Vinyl Bromides in the Gas Phase: Experimental and Computational Evidence for the Formation of Stable a-Arylvinyl Cations both by Direct Means and Spontaneous Exothermic Isomerization of Unstable Isomeric Ions, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 103, 2770-2780 (1981).
28.  Yitzhak Apeloig, Stephen A. Godleski, Deborah J. Heacock, and John M. McKelvey, Stabilization of Silicenium Ions by Second Row -Donor Substituents. An Ab Initio Study, Tetrahedron Letters, 3297-3300 (1981).
29.   J. Eric Nordlander, Jeffrey R. Neff, Walter B. Moore, Yitzhak Apeloig, Dorit Arad, Stephen A. Godleski, and Paul v. R. Schleyer, Exo/Endo Solvolysis Rate Ratios in Constrained 2-Norbornyl Systems, Tetrahedron Letters, 4921-4924 (1981).
30.  Yitzhak Apeloig and Dorit Arad, Dication Ethers (R+-O-R+), Conjugated Cations with Remarkable Low Rotation Barriers. A Theoretical Investigation, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 103, 4258-4260 (1981).
31.  John A. Pople, Yitzhak Apeloig and Paul v. R. Schleyer, Simple Carbenium Ions with Electropositive a-Substituents, Chem. Phys. Letters, 85, 489-492 (1982).
32.   Yitzhak Apeloig and Amnon Stanger, a-Silicon-substituted Vinyl Cations. A Theoretical
Ab Initio Investigation, J. Org. Chem., 47, 1462-1468 (1982).
33.  Peter Stang, Malden Ladika, Yitzhak Apeloig, Amnon Stanger, Melvyn D. Schiavelli, and Michael R. Hughey, Bimolecular Substitution at Carbon in Neopentyl-like Silyl Carbinyl Sulfonates, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 104, 6852-6854 (1982).
34.   Paul v. R. Schleyer, Yitzhak Apeloig, Dorit Arad, Brian T. Luke, and John A. Pople,
The Structure and Energy of SiH5+. Comparisons with CH5+ and BH5, Chem. Phys. Lett., 95, 477-482 (1983).
35.     Yitzhak Apeloig, Bernhard Ciommer, Gernot Frenking, Miriam Karni,
Asher Mandelbaum, Helmut Schwarz, Adrian Weisz, Mechanism of CO 2 Elimination from Ionized Methyl-haloacetates in the Gas Phase.  Formation of CH 3XCH2+ and CH 3XCHX+ (X=Cl, Br) Halonium Radical Ions, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 105, 2186-2193 (1983).
36.   Yitzhak Apeloig, Miriam Karni and Zvi Rappoport, The Role of Hyperconjugation in Determining the Stereochemistry of Nucleophilic Epoxidation and Cyclopropanation of Electrophilic Olefins,  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 105, 2784-2793 (1983).
37.   Yitzhak Apeloig, Miriam Karni, Peter J. Stang, and Dennis P. Fox, Transition-State Geometries and Stereoselectivity of Alkylidenecarbene Addition to Olefins.  An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 105, 4781-4792 (1983).
38.  Yitzhak Apeloig, Miriam Karni, Bernard Ciommer, Gisbert Depke, Grenot Frenking, Stefan Meyn, Jochen Schmidt, and Helmut Schwarz, [CH3COH]+, the Central Intermediate in the Isomerization-Dissociation Reactions of Ionized Vinyl Alcohol, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Comm., 1497-1499 (1983).
39.  Yitzhak Apeloig, Miriam Karni, Bernhard Ciommer, Gernot Frenking, and
Helmut Schwarz, Novel Stable Ion/Dipole Complexes of HF and HCl with Halocarbenes, Int. J. of  Mass Spect. and Ion Proc., 55, 319-322 (1983/1984).
40.  Yitzhak Apeloig and Amnon Stanger, -Silicon-Substituted Vinyl Cations. A Theoretical Ab Initio Investigation. An Addition to paper 32, J.  Org. Chem., 48, 5413 (1983).
41.  Yitzhak Apeloig and Miriam Karni, On the Experimental-Theoretical Discrepancy Regarding the Silicon-Carbon Double Bond Length, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Comm., 768 (1984).
42.   Yitzhak Apeloig, Miriam Karni, Bernhard Ciommer, Gisbert Depke, Gernot Frenking, Stefan Meyn, Jochen Schmidt, and Helmut Schwarz, Mechanism of Keto/Enol Tautomerism of Ionized Vinyl Alcohol versus Acetaldehyde and their Dissociation to C 2H 3O + and H.  An Ab Initio Molecular Orbital Study, Int. J. of Mass Spect. and Ion Proc., 59, 21-37, (1984).
43.  Yitzhak Apeloig and Miriam Karni, Substituent Effects on the Carbon-Silicon Double Bond. Monosubstituted Silenes, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 106, 6676-6682 (1984).
44.  Menahem Kaftory, Yitzhak Apeloig and Zvi Rappoport, The Effect of Steric Crowding on the Structures of Solvolytically Reactive Arylvinyl Systems, J. Chem. Soc.,
Perkin Trans. II, 29-37 (1985).
45.  Yitzhak Apeloig and Amnon Stanger, Are Carbenium Ions Stabilized or Destabilized by a-Silyl Substitution. The Solvolysis of 2-(Trimethyl-silyl)-2-adamantyl p-Nitrobenzoate,
          J. Am. Chem. Soc., 107, 2806-2807 (1985).
45a.  Selected for commentary as a Highlight by: Chemistry and Industry, 560 (1985).
46.  Yitzhak Apeloig and Miriam Karni, The Effect of Substituents on the First Transition in the Visible Spectra of Silanediyls (Silylens), J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Comm., 1048-1049 (1985).
47.   Amnon Stanger, Yitzhak Apeloig and David Ginsburg, Propellanes. LXXXI. Why are Tetrakis[Organoboranediylbis(oxy)cyclobutanes Formed Without a Trace of the Isomeric Tetrakis-dioxabora[3.3.2] propellanes, Helv. Chim. Acta, 68, 1179-1185 (1985).
48.  Yitzhak Apeloig and Dorit Arad, Stabilization of the Phenyl Cation, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 107, 5285-5286 (1985).
49.   Brian T. Luke, John A. Pople, Mary-Beth Krogh-Jespersen, Yitzhak Apeloig, Jeramayaha Chandrasekhar, and Paul v. R. Schleyer, A Theoretical Survey of Singly Bonded Silicon Compounds. Comparison of the Structures and Bond Energies of Silyl and Methyl Derivatives,  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 108, 260-269 (1986).
50.  Brian T. Luke, John A. Pople, Mary-Beth Krogh-Jespersen, Yitzhak Apeloig,
Miriam Karni, Jeramayaha Chandrasekhar, and Paul v. R. Schleyer, A  Theoretical Survey of Unsaturated or Multiply Bonded and Divalent Silicon Compounds. Comparison with Carbon Analogues,  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 108, 270-284 (1986).
51.   Denis P. Fox, Peter J. Stang, Yitzhak Apeloig and Miriam Karni, Stereoselectivity of Alkylidenecarbene Addition to Olefins, 2. Effect of Orbital Polarization in the Alkenes, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 108, 750-756 (1986).
52. Yitzhak Apeloig and Dorit Arad, Cyclopropabenzene. Geometry, Electronic Structure, Strain, Reactivity and the Question of Bond Fixation. A Theoretical Study,
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 108, 3241-3247 (1986).
53.   Yitzhak Apeloig, Dorit Arad, Brian Halton, and Clifford J. Randall, Studies in the Cycloproparene Series: A Theoretical and Experimental Study of the Cyclopropa-benzynes, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 108, 4932-4937 (1986).
54.   Yitzhak Apeloig, Miriam Karni, Peter J. Stang, and Stephen B. Christensen,
The Selectivity of Isopropylidenecarbene, Tetrahedron Letters, 6115-6118 (1986).
55.   Yitzhak Apeloig and Amnon Stanger, The First Demonstration of Solvolytic Generation of  a Simple Silicenium Ion (R3Si+). Access Via 1,2-Methyl Migration,  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 109, 272-273 (1987).
56.   Nikolaus Heinrich, Jochen Schmidt, Helmut Schwarz and Yitzhak Apeloig, On the Mechanism of (C, H3, O).  Loss from Ionized Methyl Acetate.  An Ab Initio Molecular Orbital Study, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 109, 1317-1322 (1987).
57.   Pinchas Aped, Yitzhak Apeloig, Aviyakar Ellencweig, Benzion Fuchs, Israel Goldberg, Miriam Karni, and Evgeny Tartakovsky, Probing the Anomeric Effect. The Trimethylsilyloxy and tert-Butoxy Substituents in 1,4-Dioxane Derivatives: Theory vs. Experiment,  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 109, 1486-1495 (1987).
58.   Yitzhak Apeloig, Silicenium Ions (R3Si+). Theory and Experiment. The First Demonstration of Solvolytic Generation of a Simple Silicenium Ion.  Access via 1,2-Methyl Migration, Studies in Organic Chemistry, 31, 33-40 (1987).
59.    Yitzhak Apeloig, Miriam Karni, Amnon Stanger, Helmut Schwarz, Thomas Drewello, and Gregor Czekay, Rearrangement vs. Dissociation of Gaseous Silicon-containing Cations: a Combined Experimental-Theoretical Approach, J. Chem. Soc. Chem. Comm., 989-991 (1987).
60.   Yitzhak Apeloig, Dorit Arad, Moshe Kapon, and Mercedes Wallerstein, The Stereochemistry of Diels-Alder Reactions of Cyclopropenes, Tetrahedron Letters, 5917-5920 (1987).
61.    Ella B. Nadler, Zvi Rappoport, Dorit Arad and Yitzhak Apeloig, a-Silicon-Substituted Simple Enol.  The Stabilizing Effect of the Silyl Substituent, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 109,7873-7875 (1987).
61a.  Selected for Commentary as a Highlight by Chemtracts - Organic Chemistry, 1, 168-170 (1988).
62.    Chong Zheng, Yitzhak Apeloig and Roald Hoffmann, Bonding and Coupling of C1 Fragments on Metal Surfaces, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 119, 749-774 (1988).
63.  Dieter Lenoir, Yitzhak Apeloig, Dorit Arad, and Paul v. Rauge Schleyer,  Remote Inductive Effects in the Solvolysis of Secondary and Tertiary 2-Norbornyl Derivatives. Evidence for Nonclassical Stabilization of the 2-Norbornyl Cation, J. Org. Chem., 53, 661-675 (1988).
64.  Yitzhak Apeloig and Miriam Karni, On the stabilities of a-Oxygen and a-Sulfur Carbenium Ions. The Importance of the Ground State Energies of the Neutral Precursors,
J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. II, 625-636 (1988).
64a.  Selected for Commentary as a Highlight by: Chemtracts - Organic Chemistry, 1, 276-277 (1988).
65.  Yitzhak Apeloig and Amnon Stanger, The Anomeric Effect at Silicon,
J. Organometallic Chem., 346, 305-313 (1988).
66.   Yitzhak Apeloig, A Chapter "Theoretical Aspects of Organosilicon Compounds", in  "The  Chemistry of Organosilicon Compounds", S. Patai and Z.  Rappoport, Eds., J. Wiley, 57-227 (1989).
67.   Yitzhak Apeloig, Miriam Karni and Dorit Arad, Cyclopropabenzenes and Alkylidene-cyclopropa-benzenes, A Synergistic Relation Between Theory and Experiment, in the "Strain and its Implications in Organic Chemistry", A. de Meijere and S. Blechert, Eds., Kluwer, Academic Publishers, 457-462 (1989).
68.    Einar Uggerud, Dorid Arad, Yitzhak Apeloig and Helmut Schwarz, Extraordinary Large Stabilization of the Phenyl Cation by Hyperconjugation with Strained Bonds. Experimental Confirmation of a Theoretical Prediction, J. Chem. Soc. Chem. Commun., 1015-1016 (1989).
69.  Zvi Rappoport, Bianca Avramovitch, Miriam Karni and Yitzhak Apeloig, Thiocyanate Ion Promoted E = Z Isomerization of a-Bromo-,  -Diactivated Electrophilic Olefins: An Apparent High Nucleofugality of NCS-, Isr. J. Chem., 29, 267-279 (1989).
70.    Peter J. Stang, T. Kitamura, A.M. Arif, Miriam Karni and Yitzhak Apeloig, A Single Crystal Molecular Structure Determination and Theoretical Calculations on Alkynyl Carboxylate Esters, J.  Am. Chem. Soc., 112, 374-381 (1990).
71.   Thomas Drewello, Peter C. Burgers, Waltraud Zummack, Yitzhak Apeloig and Helmut Schwarz, Experimental Evidence for Novel Hydrogen/Methyl Exchange Processes Preceding the Unimolecular Dissociation of Silicon-Containing Cations in the Gas Phase, Organometallics, 9, 1161-1165 (1990).
72.  Jim Maxka and Yitzhak Apeloig, Silylene Dimers: Highly Fluxional Molecules with Unusual Structures, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 737-739 (1990).
73.   Yitzhak Apeloig, A. Chapter "Calculations of Enols", in "The Chemistry of Enols", Z. Rappoport, Ed., J. Wiley, 1-74 (1990).
74.   Yitzhak Apeloig, Organosilicon Chemistry. A Synergistic Relation Between Theory and Experiment, in "Heteroatom Chemistry: ICHAC-2", E. Block, Ed., VCH, NY, 27-46 (1990).
75.   Miriam Karni and Yitzhak Apeloig, Substituent Effects on the Geometries and Energies of the Si=Si Double Bond, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 112, 8589-8590 (1990).
76.   Yitzhak Apeloig, Dorit Arad and Zvi Rappoport, Alkyl and Silyl Substituent Effects on Keto - Enol Equilibria and the Structure of Simple Aliphatic Enols.  A. Theoretical Ab Initio Study, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 112, 9131-9140 (1990).
77.   Yitzhak Apeloig, Miriam Karni, Charles M. Crittell, Atta M. Arif and Peter J. Stang, A Single Crystal Molecular Structure Determination and Theoretical Calculations on Alkynyl Sulfonate and Carboxylate Esters, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 113, 7461-7470 (1991).
78.  Hans-Ullrich Siehl, Frank-Peter Kaufmann, Armin Berndt, Nikolaos Stamatis, Yitzhak Apeloig, Viviana Braude, and David Danovich, The First Persistent -Silyl-Substituted Cation from Protonation of Tetrakis-(trimethylsilyl) Allenes, Angew. Chemie, Int. Ed., Engl., 30, 1479 (1991); German version, 103, 1546 (1991).
79.    David Danovich and Yitzhak Apeloig, Ionization Energies of Triazines and Tetrazines. Application of Green's Function Method Coupled with Semiempirical Molecular Orbital Calculations,  J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans.  II, 1865 (1991).
79a. Selected for the special Commemoratory Issue Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
80.   Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii, Viviana Braude, Amnon Stanger, Moshe Kapon and
Yitzhak Apeloig, A Novel Route to C=Si Double Bonds, Organometallics, 11, 2326-2328 (1992).
81.   Yitzhak Apeloig and Osnat Merin-Aharoni, A Convenient Preparation of Organo-fluoro-silanes. A Possible Involvement of Tetracoordinated Siliconium Ion Pairs,
Croatia Chemica Acta (Special Issue dedicated to Professor D.E.  Sunko), 65, 757-761 (1992).
82.   Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii, Yitzhak Apeloig, Yuri Ovchinikov, Vladimir Igonin and Yuri T. Struchkov, A Novel Route to the Trisilacyclobutane Moiety.  A Possible Silene-Disilene Reaction, J. Organomet. Chem., 446, 123-129 (1993).
83.  David Danovich, Yitzhak Apeloig and Sason Shaik, An Inexpensive and Reliable Method for Calculating Ionization Potentials and Electron Affinities of Radicals and Molecules, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2, 321-330 (1993).
84.   Yitzhak Apeloig, Rivka Biton, and Awad Abu-Freih, On the Importance of Electronic Geminal Interactions in Solvolysis Reactions and the Effect of a-Silyl Substitution on Carbenium Ions, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 115, 2522-2523 (1993).
85.  Paul v. R. Schleyer, Peter Buzek, Thomas Müller, Yitzhak Apeloig and Hans-Ulrich Siehl, The Search for an Isolable Silyl Cation Must Continue, Angew. Chemie, 105, 1558-1561 (1993); Angew. Chemie Int. Ed. Engl., 32, 1471-1473 (1993).
85a.  Selected for discussion at the Science & Technology Section of Chemical & Engineering News, November 8, 1993, p. 41-42.
86.    Brian Halton, Andrew J. Kay, Aileen T. McNichols, Peter J. Stang, Yitzhak Apeloig, Andreas H. Maulitz, Roland Boese and Thomas Haumann, Diarylmethylene Cyclopropabenzenes in Cycloaddition, Tetrahedron Letters, 34, 6151-6154 (1993).
87.    Yitzhak Apeloig, Osnat Marin-Aharoni, David Danovich, Alexander Ioffe and S.S. Shaik, Does Hydride Ion Transfer from Silanes to Carbenium Ions Proceed via a Rate Determining Formation of a Silicenium Ion or Via a Rate Determining Electron Transfer? An Ab Initio Quantum Mechanical Study and a Curve Crossing Analysis, Isr. J. Chem., 33, 387-402 (1993).
88.    Yitzhak Apeloig, Rivka Biton, Hans Zvilhof and Gerrit Lodder, Destabilized Vinyl Cations.  An MO Study of the Influence of Electron-Withdrawing Substituents, Tetrahedron Letters, 35, 265-268 (1994).
89.  Yitzhak Apeloig, Miriam Karni, Robert West and Kevin Welsh, Electronic Spectra of Ethynyl- and Vinyl Silylenes.  Experiment and Theory, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 116, 9719-9729 (1994).
90.   Joseph Frey, Etti Schottland, Zvi Rappoport, Dmitri Bravo-Zhivotovskii, Moshe Nakash, Mark Botoshansky, Menahem Kaftory and Yitzhak Apeloig, The Effective "Size" of the Tris(trimethyl-silyl)silyl Group in Several Molecular Environments, J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans 2, 2555-2562 (1994).
90a.  Corrigenda, J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans 2, 2377 (1995).
91.  Yitzhak Apeloig and Moshe Nakash, Reversal of Stereoselectivity in the Reduction of Gem-Dichlorides by Tributyltin Hydride and Tris(trimethyl-silyl)silane. Synthetic and Mechanistic Implications, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 116, 10781-10782 (1994).
92.   Thomas Müller, Yitzhak Apeloig, Ina Hemme, Uwe Klingebiel and Mathias Noltemeyer, Tetrafluorocyclodislazanes.  Synthesis, Crystal Structure, and Molecular Orbital Ab Initio Calculations, J. Organometallic Chem., 494, 133-142 (1995).
93.     Yitzhak Apeloig, Ilya Zharov, Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii, Yuri Ovchinnikov and Yuri Struchkov, Synthesis and the Electronic Spectra of the First -Ketoacylsilanes and Their Lithium Enolates.  New Insight into Hyperconjugation in Acylsilanes and their Enolates, J. Organometallic Chem. (Special Issue Honoring Prof. Hideki Sakurai), 499, 73-82 (1995).
94.  Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii, Ilya Zharov, Moshe Kapon and Yitzhak Apeloig, A Novel Synthesis of a Germene and of a 1,2-Digermacyclobutane via a Peterson-type Reaction, J. Chem. Soc. Chem. Comm., 1995, 1625-1626 (1995).
95. Yitzhak Apeloig and Thomas Müller, Do Silylenes Always Dimerize to Disilenes?  Novel Silylene Dimers with Unusual Structures, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 117, 5363-5364 (1995).
96.   Yitzhak Apeloig and Eynatte Matzner, Evidence for the Dominant Role of Secondary Orbital Interactions in Determining the Stereochemistry of the Diels-Alder Reaction: The Case of Cyclopropene, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 117, 5375-5376 (1995).
97.   Yitzhak Apeloig and Karsten Albrecht, Triple Bonds to Silicon.  Relative Stabilities and Energy Barriers Separating Silanitriles and Silaisonitriles.  An ab Initio Study, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 117, 7263-7264 (1995).
98.    Yitzhak Apeloig and Karsten Albrecht, Ab Initio Study on the Unimolecular Decomposition Mechanisms and Spectroscopic Properties of CH3OF, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 117, 9564-9569 (1995).
99.   Robert West, Honglae Sohn, Uwe Bankwitz, Joseph Calabrese, Yitzhak Apeloig and Thomas Müller, Dilithium Derivative of Tetraphenylsilole: An h1-h5 Dilithium Structure, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 117, 11608-11609 (1995).
100.  Yitzhak Apeloig, Miriam Karni and Thomas Müller, Silylenes and Multiple Bonds to Silicon: Synergism between Theory and Experiment, in "Organosilicon Chemistry II.  From Molecules to Materials ",  N. Auner and J. Weis, Editors, VCH, pp.263-286 (1996).
101. Michael Denk, Robert West, Randy Hayashi, Yitzhak Apeloig, Reuben Pauncz and
Miriam Karni, Silylenes, Stable and Unstable, in "Organosilicon Chemistry II.  From Molecules to Materials ",  N. Auner and J. Weis, Editors, VCH, pp.251-261 (1996).
102.  Karsten Albrecht and Yitzhak Apeloig, Triple Bonds to Silicon: Substituted Silanitriles versus Silaisonitriles - A Theoretical Study, in "Organosilicon Chemistry II. From Molecules to Materials ",  N. Auner and J. Weis, Editors, VCH, pp. 321-327 (1996).
103.  Yitzhak Apeloig and David Danovich, Ionization Energies of Linear and Cyclic Polysilanes.  Application of the Green's Function Method Coupled with Semiempirical Molecular Orbital Calculations, Organometallics, 15, 350-360 (1996).
104.  Christoph Heinemann, Thomas Müller, Yitzhak Apeloig and Helmut Schwarz, On the Question of Stability, Conjugation and “Aromaticity” in Imidazol-2-ylidenes and Their Silicon Analogs, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118, 2023-2038 (1996).
105.  Robert West, Honglae Sohn, Douglas R. Powell, Thomas Müller and Yitzhak Apeloig, The Dianion of Tetraphenylgermole is Aromatic, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 35, 1002-1004 (1996).
106.  Yitzhak Apeloig and Moshe Nakash, The Mechanism of Addition of Phenols to Tetramesityldisilene.  Evidence for Both Nucleophilic and Electrophilic Rate-Determining Steps, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118, 9798-9799 (1996).
107.  Armin de Meijere, Dietmar Faber, Mathias Noltemeyer, Roland Boese,
Thomas Haumann, Thomas Müller, Michael Bendikov, Eynatte Matzner and
Yitzhak Apeloig, Tris(trimethylsilyl)cyclopropenylium Cation: The First X-ray Structure Analysis of an a-Silyl-substituted Carbocation, J. Org. Chem., 61, 8564-8568 (1996).
108.  Yitzhak Apeloig, Michael Bendikov, Michael Yuzefovich, Moshe Nakash and Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii, Novel Stable Silenes via a Sila-Peterson-Type Reaction. Molecular Structure and Reactivity, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 118, 12228-12229 (1996).
109.  Yitzhak Apeloig and Miriam Karni, Triple Bonds to Silicon. Substituent Effects on the Thermodynamic and Kinetic Stabilities of Silynes Relative to their Isomeric Silylidenes and Silavinylidenes, Organometallics, 16, 310-312 (1997).
110.  Yitzhak Apeloig, Michael Yuzefofich, Michael Bendikov, Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii and Karl Klinkhammer, A New Method for the Synthesis of Branched Polysilane Anions, Organometallics, 16, 1265-1269 (1997).
111.  Ronit Shvily, Thomas Müller, Yitzhak Apeloig and Asher Mandelbaum, Direct Evidence for Anchimeric Assistance in Alcohol Elimination from Gas-Phase MH+ Ions of 1,4-Dialkoxycyclohexanes Under Chemical Ionization. Experiment and Theory,
J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. II, 1221-1234 (1997).
112.  Robert West, Jefferson Cavalieri, Jarrod J. Buffy, Charles Fry, Kurt Zilm, James Duchamp, Mitsuo Kira, Takeaki Iwamoto, Thomas Müller, and Yitzhak Apeloig, A Solid-State NMR and Theoretical Study of the Chemical Bonding in Disilenes, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 119, 4972-4976 (1997).
113.  Yitzhak Apeloig and Thomas Müller, Theory and Calculations, in Dicoordinated Carbocations, Z. Rappoport and P.J.  Stang, Eds., Wiley & Sons, pp. 9-104 (1997).
114.  Marek Cypryk and Yitzhak Apeloig, Ab Initio Study of Silyloxonium Ions, Organometallics, 16, 5938-5949 (1997).
115.  Thomas Müller, Yitzhak Apeloig, Honglae Son and Robert West, Silole and Germole Dianions and Their Dilithium Derivatives - Are They Aromatic? in "Organosilicon Chemistry III. From Molecules to Materials ", N. Auner and J. Weis, Editors, VCH, 144-151 (1998).
116.  Yitzhak Apeloig and Moshe Nakash, Solvent Dependent Stereoselectivity in the Addition of p-CH 3OC 6H 4OH to (E)-1,2-di-tert-butyl-1,2-dimesityldisilene.  Evidence for Rotation Around the Si-Si Bond in the Zwitterionic Intermediate, Organometallics, 17, 1260-1265 (1998).
117.  Yitzhak Apeloig, Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii, Ilya Zharov, Vladislav Panov, William J. Leigh and Gregory W. Sluggett, Thermal and Photochemical [2+2] Cycloreversion of a 1,2-Disilacyclobutane and a 1,2-Digermacyclobutane, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 120, 1398-1404 (1998).
118.  Robert West, Jarrod J. Buffy, Michael Haaf, Thomas Müller, Barbara Gehrhus,
Michael F. Lappert and Yitzhak Apeloig, Chemical Shift Tensors and NICS Calculations for Stable Silylenes, J. Am. Chem. Soc.,120, 1639-1640 (1998).
119.  Yitzhak Apeloig and Moshe Nakash, Arrhenius Parameters for the Addition of Phenols to the Silicon-Silicon Double Bond of Tetramesityldisilene, Organometallics, 17,
2307-2312 (1998).
120.  Yitzhak Apeloig, Roland Boese, Brian Halton and Andreas H. Maulitz, The Molecular Structures of Fulvalenes Derived from Methylidenecycloproparenes: X-Ray Structure Determinations and ab initio Calculations, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 120, 10147-10153 (1998).
121.  Stepan Sklenak, Yitzhak Apeloig and Zvi Rappoport, Calculated pKEnol Values for Enols of Carboxylic Acid Derivatives H 2C=C(OH)X, X=OH, NH 2, NMe 2, OMe, OCHO, F, Cl, Br,  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 120, 10359-10364 (1998).
122.  Uri Zoller, Elias Shakhour, Irine Pastersky, Stephan Sklenak and Yitzhak Apeloig, Polycyclic Arene Episulfides.  Attempted Synthesis, Molecular Orbital Calculations and Comparison with Arene Oxides, Tetrahedron, 54, 14283-14300 (1998).
123.  Yitzhak Apeloig and Miriam Karni, Theoretical Aspects of Silaaromatic Compounds, in The Chemistry of Organic Silicon Compounds, Vol. 2, Z. Rappoport and Y. Apeloig, Eds., Chpt. 1, pp. 1-101 (1998).
124.  Miriam Karni, Yitzhak Apeloig, Detlef Schröder, Waltraud Zummack,
Roberto Rabezzana and Helmut Schwarz, FSiCH and ClSiCH: The First Detection of Molecules with SiºC Triple Bonds, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 38, 331-335 (1999);  German Version, 111, 343-347 (1999).
124a.   Selected by Chemical & Engineering News for commentary as a Highlight in the Science/Technology Concentrates Section, 15 February, 1999, p.51, and also for the cover page of the Communication Section in Angew. Chemie.
125.  Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii, Michael Yuzefovich, Michael Bendikov, Karl Klinkhammer and Yitzhak Apeloig, The Synthesis Structure of the First Compound with a Monovalent Mercury Hg(I)-Hg(I) Bond: Bis [tris(pentamethyldisilyl)silyl] Dimercury, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Engl., 38, 1100-1102 (1999): German version: 111, 1169-1171 (1999).
126.  Max C. Holthausen, Wolfram Koch and Yitzhak Apeloig, Theory Predicts Ground State Triplet Silylenes, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 121, 2622-2623 (1999).
127.  Yitzhak Apeloig, Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii, Michael Bendikov, David Danovich,
Mark Botoshanksii, Tamara Vakul’skaya, Mikhail Voronkov, Vladimir Igonin,
Valery Shkover and Yuri Struchkov, Synthesis and X-ray Molecular Structure of the First Stable Organic Radical Lacking Resonance Stabilization, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 121, 8118-8119 (1999).
127a.   Selected by Chemical & Engineering News for commentary as a Highlight in the Science/Technology Concentrates Section, 13 February, 1999, 77, p.24
128.  Thomas A. Schmedake, Michael Haaf, Yitzhak Apeloig, Thomas Muller, Sergey Bukalov and Robert West, Reversible Transformation Between a Diaminosilylene and A Novel Disilene, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 121, 9479-9480 (1999).
129.  Yitzhak Apeloig, Gady Korogodsky, Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii, Dieter Blaser and
Roland Boese, The Syntheses and Molecular Structure of a Branched Oligosilyl Anion With a Record of Nine Silicon Atoms and of the First Branched Oligosilyl Dianion, European J. Inorg. Chem., 1091-1095 (2000).
130.  Yitzhak Apeloig, Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii, Michael Yuzefovich, Michael Bendikov and Alexander Shames, Polysilyl Radicals, EPR Study of the Formation and Decomposition of Star Polysilanes, Appl. Magn. Reson., 18, 425-434 (2000).
131.  Stepan Sklenak, Yitzhak Apeloig and Zvi Rappoport, Equilibria of simple thioenol/thiocarbonyl pairs.  Comparison with the oxygen analogs and with the parent selenium and tellurium systems.  A theoretical study, J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans. 2., 2268-2279 (2000).
132.  Mark J.M. Vlaar, Andreas W. Ehlers, Frans J.J. de Kanter, Marius Schakel,
Anthony L. Spek, Martin Lutz, Nadejda Sigal, Yitzhak Apeloig and Koop Lammertsma, A Novel CSiP Ring from the Reaction of a Phosphinidene and a Silene, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl., 39, 4127-4130 (2000).
133.  Yitzhak Apeloig and Stepan Sklenak, On the Possible Formation of Si=O, Si=S and Si=Se Double Bonds via the Reaction of Silylenes with Oxirane, Thiirane and Selenirane, respectively.  An Ab Initio Study, Cand. J. Chem. (a special invited issue dedicated to Professor A. Brook), 78, 1496-1510 (2000).
134.  Masae Takahashi, Shinobu Tsutsui, Kenkichi Sakamoto, Mitsuo Kira, Thomas Mueller and Yitzhak Apeloig, Dimers of Diaminosilylenes – Doubly Bonded or Bridged?  The Dimers of (i-Pr2N)2Si:, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 123, 347-348 (2001).
135.  Jarrod J. Buffy, Robert West, Michael Bendikov and Yitzhak Apeloig, Chemical Shielding Tensors for a Silicon-Carbon Double Bond, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 123, 978-979 (2001).
136.  Armin de Meijere, Dietmar Faber, Ute Heinecke, Robin Walsh, Thomas Mueller and Yitzhak Apeloig, On the Question of Cyclopropylidene Intermediates in Cyclopropene -to-Allene Rearrangements - Tetrakis(trimethylsilyl)cyclopropene, 3-Alkenyl-1,2,3-tris (trimethylsilyl) cyclopropenes, and Related Model Compounds, Europ. J. Org. Chem., 663-680 (2001).
137.    Thomas Mueller, Michael Bendikov, Norbert Auner and Yitzhak Apeloig, The Trichlorovinylsilane/t-butyllithium Reagent – A Source for Transient Silenes?, Organometallics, 20, 598-600 (2001).
138.  Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii, Semyon Melamed, Yitzhak Apeloig, Asher Schmidt, Sharona Melchior, Gennady E. Shter and Gideon S. Grader, Transformation of Organosilicon Loaded Alumina Gel to Homogeneous Aluminosilicates: A Solid-State NMR Study, Chem. Mater., 13, 247-249 (2001).
139.  Masae Takahashi, Mitsuo Kira, Kenkichi Sakamoto, Thomas Müller and Yitzhak Apeloig, Theoretical Prediction of Vertical Transition Energies of Diaminosilylenes and Aminosubstituted Disilenes, J. Comput. Chem., 22, 1536-1541 (2001).
140.   Brian Halton, Andrew J. Kay, Aileen T. McNichols, Peter J. Stang, Yitzhak Apeloig, Roland Boese, Andreas H. Maulitz and Thomas Haumann, Studies in the Cycloproparene Series: Cycloaddition Reactions of Diarylmethylidenecycloproparenes, Arkivoc, Vol. 2, Part 5, ms31, ISSN 1424-6376 (2001).
141.  Yitzhak Apeloig, Michael Yuzefovich, Michael Bendikov, Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii, Dieter Bläser and Roland Boese, Branched Star-Like Polysilyl Lithium Compounds.  The Effects of b-Silyl Substitution and of Complexation on Their Molecular Structure, Angew. Chemie, Int. Ed., 3016-3020 (2001).
142.  Gerhard Maas, Mechthild Alt, Dieter Mayer, Uwe Bergstraber, Stepan Sklenak, Prince Xavier and Yitzhak Apeloig, Catalytic and Photochemical Cyclopropanation of Alkenes with Methyl Diazo(trialkylsilyl)acetates, Organometallics, 20, 4607-4615 (2001).
143.  Nadejda Sigal and Yitzhak Apeloig, Are Disilacyclopropylidenes and Their Carbenoids Good Precursors for the Unknown 1,3-Disilaallenes?, J. Organomet. Chem., 636, 148-156 (2001).
144.  David Danovich, François Ogliaro, Miriam Karni, Yitzhak Apeloig, David L. Cooper and Sason Shaik, Silynes (RCºSiR') and Disilynes (RSiºSiR'): Why Are Less Bonds Worth Energetically More?, Angew. Chemie, Int. Ed., 40, 4023-4026 (2001).  Corrigenda. David Danovich, François Ogliaro, Miriam Karni, Yitzhak Apeloig, David L. Cooper and Sason Shaik, Silynes (RCºSiR') and Disilynes (RSiºSiR'): Why Are Less Bonds Worth Energetically More?, Angew. Chemie, Int. Ed., 43, 141 (2004).
145.  Miriam Karni, Yitzhak Apeloig, Jürgen Kapp and Paul von R. Schleyer, Theoretical Aspects of Compounds Containing Si, Ge, Sn and Pb compounds, in The Chemistry of Organic Silicon Compounds, Vol. 3, Z. Rappoport and Y. Apeloig, Eds., J. Wiley Chpt. 1, pp. 1-163 (2001).
146.  Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii, Michael Yuzefovich, Nadejda Sigal, Gady Korogodsky, Karl Klinkhammer, Boris Tumanskii, Alex Shames and Yitzhak Apeloig, The Synthesis of the First Compound with Li-Si-Hg Bonding: [{Li(iPr3Si)2Si}2Hg]- a Source for the [Li(iPr3Si)2Si]ª  Radical, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 41, 649 (2002).
147.  Michael Bendikov, Bahman Solouki, Norbert Auner and Yitzhak Apeloig, Ionization Potentials of Silenes (R’2Si=CR2). Experiment and Theory, Organometallics, 21, 1349-1354  (2002).
148.  Thomas Müller and Yitzhak Apeloig, Possible Strategies Towards the Elusive Tetraaminodisilene,  J. Am. Chem. Soc., 124, 3457-3460 (2002).
149.    Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii, Semyon Melamed, Moshe Kapon and Yitzhak Apeloig, Thermal Transformation of a 1,2-Disilacyclobutane to a Trisilacyclobutane, Organometallics, 21, 2049-2054 (2002).
150.  Michael Bendikov, Yitzhak Apeloig, Sergey Bulkalov, Irina Garbuzova and Larissa Leites, The Raman, Ultraviolet, and Infrared Spectra and the JSi=C NMR Coupling Constants of the Stable Silene (t-BuMe2Si)Me3Si)Si=2-Ad. Manifestations of the Si=C Double Bond, J. Phys. Chem. A, 106, 4880-4885 (2002).
151.   Marek Cypryk and Yitzhak Apeloig, Mechanism of the Acid-Catalized Si-O Bond Cleavage in Siloxanes and Siloxanols. A Theoretical Study, Organometallics, 21, 2165-2175 (2002).
152.  Sergei. Kozhushkov, Thomas Späth, Torsten Fiebig, Bernard. Galland, Marie-Francoise. Ruasse, Prince Xavier, Yitzhak Apeloig and Armin. de Meijere, Reactivities of Methylenetriangulanes and Spirocyclopropanated Bi­cyclopropylidenes Towards Bromine – Relative Stabilities of Spiro­cyclopropanated versus Methyl-Substituted Bromonium Ions,  J. Org. Chem.,  67, 4100-4100 (2002).
153.  Yitzhak Apeloig and Miriam Karni, The Quest for a Stable Silyne: The Effect of Bulky Substituents on the Isomerization and the Dimerization of RSiºCR', Silicon Chem., 1, 61-66 (2002).
154.  G. Korogodsky, M. Bendikov, D. Bravo-Zhivotovskii and Y. Apeloig,  Determination of the Solution Acidity of Tris(trimethylsilyl)silane, Organometallics, 21, 3157-3161  (2002).
155.  M. Bendikov, S.R. Quadt, O. Rabin and Y. Apeloig, Addition of Nucleophiles to Silenes. A Theoretical Study of the Effect of Substituents on the Kinetic Stability, Organometallics, 21, 3930-3939 (2002).
156.  N. Segal, Y. Apeloig,  A Theoretical Study of Heavier Group 14 Analogues of Allene, Organomettallics, 21, 5486-5493 (2002).
157.  Y. Apeloig, R. Pauncz, M. Karni, R. West, W. Steiner and D. Chapman, Why is Methylene a Ground State Triplet while Silylene is a Ground State Singlet?
Organometallics,  22, 3250 (2003).
158.  E. D. Azinović, D. Bravo-Zhivotovskii, M. Bendikov, Y. Apeloig, B. Tumansky and S. Vepřek, Spectroscopic Studies of the Role of Silyl Radicals in Photolysis of Polysilanes, Chem. Phys. Lett., 374, 257 (2003).
159.  J. Ben Ari, M. Karni, Y. Apeloig and A.  Mandelbaum,  The Role of Hydride Migration in the Mechanism of Alcohol Elimination from Protonated Ethers Upon Chemical Ionization. Experiment and Theory,  Int. J. of Mass Spectrometry, 228, 297  (2003).
160.    S. I. Kozhushkov, T. Späth, M. Kosa, Y. Apeloig, D. S.Yufit, and A. de Meijere,  Relative Stabilities of Spirocyclopropanated Cyclopropyl Cations, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 4234-4242 (2003).
161.  D. Bravo-Zhivotovskii, G. Korogodsky, Y. Apeloig, Synthesis of the first long-lived bis-silene.    J. Organomet. Chem.,  686,  58-65 (2003).
162.  M. Bendikov, V. Kravchenko, Y. Apeloig, J. Y. Becker, The First Electrochemical Study of a Silene. An Unusually Low Oxidation Potential, Comparable to Those of Strong Organic p-Electron Donors. Organometallics 23,  921-923 (2004).
163.    D. Bravo-Zhivotovskii, H. Peleg-Vasserman, M. Kosa, G. Molev, M. Botoshanskii, Y. Apeloig, The direct synthesis of a silene-organometallic complex.  Angew. Chem., Int. Ed.  43, 745-748 (2004) .
164.   Boris Tumanskii, Pauline Pine, Yitzhak Apeloig, Nicholas J. Hill, Robert West,    Radical reactions of a stable N-heterocyclic silylene: EPR study and DFT calculation, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 7786-7787  (2004).
165.   M. Kosa, M. Karni and Y. Apeloig, How to design linear allenic trisilaallenes and trigermaallenes, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 10544-10545 (2004).
166.  Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii, Ilya Ruderfer, Semyon Melamed, Mark Botoshansky, Boris Tumanskii and Yitzhak Apeloig,  Non-solvated Aggregated 1,1-Dilithiosilane and Derived Novel Silyl Radicals,  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 44, 739 (2005).
167.   Kravchenko V., Bravo-Zhivotovskii D., Tumanskii B., Botoshansky M., Sigal N., Molev G., Kosa M. and Apeloig Y. Kinetic stabilization of polysilyl radicals. Organosilicon Chemistry VI ",  N. Auner and J. Weis, Editors, VCH, (2005).
168.  Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii, Ilya Ruderfer, Michael Yuzefovich, Monica Kosa, Mark Botoshansky, Boris Tumanskii and Yitzhak Apeloig* Mercury-Substituted Silyl Radical Intermediates in Formation and Fragmentation of Geminal Dimercury Silyl Compounds.    Organometallics,  24,  2698-2704 (2005).
169.  Tumanskii, Boris; Pine, Pauline; Apeloig, Yitzhak; Hill, Nicholas J.; West, Robert.  Radical Reactions of a Stable N-Heterocyclic Germylene: EPR Study and DFT Calculation. J. Am. Chem. Soc.,  127,  8248-8249 (2005).
170.  M. Karni, Y. Apeloig, The Fascinating World of Low – Coordination Silicon Compounds, Chemistry in Israel, 19, 22 (2005).
171. M. Karni,  Y. Apeloig, N. Takagi  and S.  Nagase, The Quest for Stable Si-Si Triply-Bonded compounds. An ab-initio and DFT study of the 29Si NMR Chemical Shifts in RSiºSiR, Organometallics, 24, 6319-6330 (2005).
172.  Gregory Molev, Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii, Miriam Karni, Mark Botoshansky and Yitzhak Apeloig, Synthesis, Molecular Structure and Reactivity of the Isolable Silylenoid with a Tricoordinate Silicon,  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128, 2784-2785 (2006).
173.  Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii, Ilya Ruderfer, Semyon Melamed, Mark Botoshansky, Asher Schmidt, Yitzhak Apeloig, [(R2Si)3Li4]2- - an Aggregated Dianion Form of 1,1-Dilithiosilane, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 45, 4157-4159 (2006).
174.  Monica Kosa, Miriam Karni, Yitzhak Apeloig, Trisilaallene and the Relative Stability of Si3H4 Isomers. A Theoretical Study, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2, 956-964  (2006).
175.  William J. Leigh, Thomas R. Owens, Michael Bendikov, Sanjio S. Zade, and Yitzhak Apeloig, A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study of the Kinetics and Mechanism of the Addition of Alcohols to Electronically Stabilized Silenes: A New Mechanism for the Addition of Alcohols to the Si=C Bond, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 10772-10783 (2006).
176.    Alexander D. Dilman, Vitalij V. Levin, Miriam Karni, Yitzhak Apeloig, Activation of Pentafluorophenylsilanes by Weak Lewis Bases in Reaction with Iminium Cations, J. Org. Chem., 71,  7214-7223 (2006).
177.  Vladimir Ya. Lee, Tomohide Fukawa, Masaaki Nakamoto, Akira Sekiguchi, Boris L. Tumanskii, Miriam Karni, Yitzhak Apeloig, (tBu2MeSi)2Sn=Sn(SiMetBu2)2: A Distannene with a >Sn=Sn< Double Bond That is Stable Both in the Solid State and in Solution, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 11643-11651 (2006).
178.  Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii, Gregory Molev, Victoria Kravchenko, Mark Botoshansky, Asher Schmidt, and Yitzhak Apeloig, Novel Aggregation Motif of gem-Dilithiosilanes: Coaggregation of Two R2SiLi2 Molecules with Two RLi Molecules, Organometallics, 25, 4719-4721 (2006).
179.  Victoria Kravchenko, Rei Kinjo, Akira Sekiguchi, Masaaki Ichinohe, Robert West,  Yael S. Balazs, Asher Schmidt,  Miriam Karni and Yitzhak Apeloig, Solid-State 29Si NMR Study of RSiSiR - A Tool for Analyzing the Nature of the Si-Si Bond, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 128, 14472-14473 (2006).
180. Monica Kosa, Miriam Karni and Yitzhak Apeloig, A Theoretical Study of Ladder Polysilanes, Organometallics, 26, 2806-2814 (2007).
181. Boris Tumanskii, Dennis Sheberla, Gregory Molev and Yitzhak Apeloig, Dual Character of Arduengo Carbene-Radical Adducts: Addition versus Coordination Product, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.  46, 7408-7411 (2007).
182. Dmitry Bravo-Zhivotovskii, Roman Dobrovetsky, Dmitry Nemirovsky, Victoria Molev, Michael Bendikov, Gregory Molev, Mark Botashansky and Yitzhak Apeloig, The Synthesis and Isolation of the First Metal Substituted Bis-silene. Angew. Chemie, Int. Ed.    47, 4343-4345 (2008).
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183. Boris Tumanskii, Gregory Molev, Dennis Sheberla, Yitzhak Apeloig, Adam C. Tomasik, Nicholas J. Hill, Robert West, Radical Reactions of Stable N-Heterocycle Divalent Compounds (Carbene, Silylene, Germylene): EPR Spectroscopic Study and DFT calculations, J. Am. Chem. Soc., submitted (2008).
184. Hong-Wei, Xi, Miriamvb Karni and Yitzhak Apeloig Silabutadienes - Internal Rotations and π–Conjugation, a DFT Study, J. Phys. Chem. A, submitted. (2008)

C.      Reviews

1.Yitzhak Apeloig, a chapter entitled: "Theory of Organosilicon Compounds", in The Chemistry of Organosilicon Compounds, S. Patai and Z. Rappoport, Eds., J. Wiley, pp. 57-225, (1989).
2.Yitzhak Apeloig, a chapter entitled: "Theoretical Calculations of Enols," in The Chemistry of Enols, Z. Rappoport, Ed., J. Wiley, Chpt. 1, pp. 1-74, (1990).
3.Yitzhak Apeloig and Thomas Müller, a chapter entitled: "Theoretical Studies of Dicoordinated Cations", in Vinyl Cations, J. Wiley, Chpt. 2, pp. 9-104  (1997).
4.Yitzhak Apeloig and Miriam Karni, Theoretical Aspects of Silaaromatic Compounds, in The Chemistry of Organic Silicon Compounds, Vol. 2, Z. Rappoport and Y. Apeloig, Eds., J. Wiley, Chpt. 1, pp. 1-101 (1998).
5.Miriam Karni, Yitzhak Apeloig, Jürgen Kapp and Paul von R. Schleyer, Theoretical Aspects of Compounds Containing Si, Ge, Sn and Pb compounds, in The Chemistry of Organic Silicon Compounds, Vol. 3, Z. Rappoport and Y. Apeloig, Eds., J. Wiley Chpt. 1, pp. 1-163 (2001).

D.    Books Editorials

1.Editor (jointly with S. Shaik) of a Special Issue on the "Applications of Theory to Organic and Organometallic Molecules", Israel Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 23, (1983).
2.Editor of the Book of Abstracts of the 10th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Technion, Israel, August 5-10, 1990.
3.Editor, (jointly with S. Shaik), Special Issue Honoring Prof. J.A. Pople on "Computational Quantum Chemistry - A Cornerstone of Chemical Research", Israel Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 33, No. 3 and No. 4 (1994).
4.Editor  (jointly with M. Karni), of a Special Issue on: “Theory and Modelling in Chemistry”, J. Molec. Struct. (Theochem), 398-399,  1-582 (1997).
5.Editor (jointly with Z. Rappoport), The Chemistry of Organic Silicon Compounds, Vol. 2 (3 books, 2758 pages), J. Wiley, 1998.
6.Editor (jointly with Z. Rappoport), The Chemistry of Organic Silicon Compounds, Vol. 3, J. Wiley, 2001.
7.Editor (jointly with M. Karni and H. Matsumoto) of the Special Issue of Silicon Chemistry in honor of M. Kira (2006).

E.    Other Publications

Book Review (with H.-U. Siehl) on: "NMR-Basic Principles and Progress", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 113, 9911 (1991).

F.       Plenary and Invited Lectures at International Conferences:


1975170th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
1977173th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
19791st European Symposium on Organic Chemistry, Cologne, West Germany.
19805th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Santa-Cruz, California, USA.
198148th Annual Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society.
1982International Symposium on "Organic Reaction Mechanisms. New Concepts and Prospects", Fukuoka, Japan.
19834th Gentner Symposium on Chemistry, Ginossar, Israel.
19847th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Auckland, New Zealand.
1985 Fourth European Symposium on Organic Chemistry (ESOC), Aix-en-Provence, France.
1986 The 8th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Tokyo, Japan.
1986 Kyushu Symposium on Physical Organic Chemistry, "Zen" on Organic Reaction Mechanisms, Kyushu University, Japan.
1986 52nd Annual Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
1986 Computational Methods in Chemical Design; Molecular Modelling and Computer Graphics, Schloss Elmau, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Federal Republic Germany.
1987 Swedish-Israeli Symposium on "New Trends in Organic Chemistry", The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
1987 International Symposium on Organic Reactivity, Paris, France.
1987 5th European Symposium on Organic Chemistry, Jerusalem, Israel.
1987 1st Joint Italio-Israeli Meeting on the Influence of Steric and Electronic Effects on Molecular Crystalline Structure, Florence, Italy.
1987  International Workshop on "The Structure of Small Molecules and Ions", Jerusalem, Israel.
1988 53rd Annual Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society, Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel.
1988 9th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Regensburg, Federal Republic of Germany.
1988 Symposium on "Carbocations and Other Reactive Intermediates", Tübingen, Federal Republic of Germany.
1988 Symposium on "Strain and its Implications in Organic Chemistry", Hamburg, Federal Republic of Germany.
1989 Second International Conference on Heteroatom Chemistry, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, New York, USA.
1989 The Second European Symposium on Organic Reactivity (ESOR II), Padova, Italy.
1989 Sixth European Symposium on Organic Chemistry (ESOC 6), Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
1989 A Symposium in Memory of Professor David Ginsburg, Haifa, Israel.
1990 A Symposium Honoring the 60th Birthday of Professor Paul v. R. Schleyer.
1991 The Annual Conference of the Japanese Chemical Society, Sapporo, Japan.
1991 Okazaki International Conference, Okazaki, Japan.
1991 The Third Kyushu Symposium of Organic Reaction Mechanisms (KIPOC 3), Fukuoka, Japan.
1992 The 2nd Joint Italo-Israeli Meeting on "Electronic Effects on Molecular Structure", Herzelia, Israel.
1992 The 57th Annual Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society, Technion, Haifa, Israel.
1992 Special Symposium organized by the Israel Chemical Society, honoring John A. Pople - 1992 Laureate of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel.
1992 Toronto International Conference on Organic Reactive Intermediates, Toronto, Canada.
1992 The 11th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Ithaca, New York, USA.
1992 The 5th Conference on Carbene and Carbene Analogues Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Zelinski Institut, Moscow, Russia.
1993  The Third World Congress of Theoretical Organic Chemists (WATOC '93), Toyohashi, Japan.
1993  The 10th International Symposium on Organosilicon Chemistry, Poznan, Poland.
1993  "Organosilicon Polymers", Polish Academy of Sciences, Lodz, Poland.
1993  Kyushu International Symposium on Physical Organic Chemistry (KISPOC), Kyushu University, Kyushu, Japan.
1994  The 59th Annual Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel.
1994  Italian-Israeli Seminar on Physical Organic Chemistry, Alghero (Sassari), Italy.
1994  The 3rd Munich Silicon days Conference, Munich, Germany.
1994  The Second Swedish-Israeli Symposium on New Trends in Organic Chemistry, Stockholm, Sweden.
1994  IUPAC 12th Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Padova, Italy.
1995  The 60th Annual Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
1995  Kyushu International Symposium on Physical Organic Chemistry (KISPOC-VI), Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan.
1996  The Tsukuba Conference on New Aspects in the Chemistry of Reactive Intermediates, Tsukuba University, Tsukuba, Japan.
1996  The 13th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Inchon, Korea.
1996  The 11th International Symposium on Organosilicon Chemistry, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
1997  The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
1997   The 30th Organosilicon Symposium, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
1997   The 9th International Congress of Quantum Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
1998   The 2nd Israeli-Czech Meeting on Molecular Dynamics, Jerusalem, Israel.
1998   Symposium on the Interplay Between Theory and Experiment, Louvain-le-Neuve, Belgium.
1998   Symposium on Synergism of Experiment and Theoretical Chemistry, Mexico City, Mexico.
1999   The 1999 Frontiers in Biomedical Research Symposium, Palm Springs , California, USA.
1999   The 1999 Annual Meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan, Yokahama, Japan.
1999   The 12th International Symposium on Organosilicon Chemistry, Sendai, Japan.
1999    The 11th European Symposium on Organic Chemistry (ESOC 11), Göteborg, Sweden.
1999    The 7th European Symposium on Organic Reactivity (ESOR), University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
2000 The 65th Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society.
2000 The 15th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry, Göteborg, Sweden
2001 The Sixth International Conference on Heteroatom Chemistry, Lodz, Poland.
2001 European Symposium on Organic Reactivity (ESOC), Dubrovnik, Croatia.
2001 International Symposium on Reactive Intermediates and Unusual Molecules (ISRIUM), Nara, Japan.
2002 Fifthteenth Annual C. A Coulson Lecture, University of Georgia, Athens, USA.
2002  16th IUPAC Conference on Physical Organic Chemistry (ICPOC 16), University of California, San Diego, USA.
2002 XIII International Symposium on Organosilicon Chemistry (ISOS XIII), Guanajuato, Mexico.
2002    Minerva School on Computational Quantum Chemistry, Blankensee, Germany.
2003 The 68th meeting of the Israel Chemical Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2003 European Symposium on Organic Reactivity, Oslo, Norway.
2004 Theory and Application of Computational Chemistry (TACC), Gyeongju, Korea.
2004 Heron Island Conference on Reactive Intermediates and Unusual Molecules (Heron 3), Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia.
2005  229th ACS National Meeting, San Diego, Ca. USA.
2005  The 70th Meeting of the Israel Chemical Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2005  Symposium honoring Paul Schleyer's 75th Birthday, University of Georgia, USA.
2005 American Chemical Society 229th National Meeting, John Pople Memorial Symposium, San  Diego, CA, USA.
2005    The 14th International Symposium on Organosilicon Chemistry, Würzburg, Germany.
2005    International Symposium on Dynamic Complexes, Sendai, Japan.
2005    Annual Meeting of the Japan Society of Silicon Chemistry, Hiroshima, Japan.
2006    German Chemical Society Lecturer, University of Ulm, Germany
2007    The 11th European Symposium on Organic Reactivity, Algarve, Portugal
2007    European Silicon Days, Bath, England
2008    World Association of Theoretically Oriented Chemists (WATOC), Sydney, Australia

In addition, Professor Apeloig has presented nearly 100 seminars in universities, research institutes and industry worldwide, and his students and coworkers have presented in conferences more than 120 posters on the group's work.