The mechanism of the cycloaddition reaction of forming a silicic bis-heterocyclic compound between singlet dimethylmethylenesilylene （Me2C=Si：） and ethene has been investigated with the CCSD（T）//MP2/6-31G＊ method. From the potential energy profile, it can be predicted that, this reaction has one dominant channel. The presented rule of this dominant channel： the 3p unoccupied orbital of Si in dimethylmethylenesilylene and the π orbital of ethene forming the π→p donor-acceptor bond, resulting in the formation of three-membered ring intermediate （INT1）; INT1 then isomerizes to a four-membered ring silylene （P2）, which is driven by ring-enlargement effect; due to sp3 hybridization of Si atom in P2, P2 further combines with ethene to form a silicic bis-heterocyclic compound.
The mechanism of the oxide extraction reaction between singlet germylene carbene and its derivatives X2Ge=C： （X=H, F, Cl, CH3） and ethylene oxide has been investigated with B3LYP/6-311G（d,p） method. The results show that this kind of reaction has similar mechanism, the shift of 2p lone electron pair of O in ethylene oxide to the 2p unoccupied orbital of C in X2Ge=C： gives a p→p donor-acceptor bond, thereby leading to the formation of intermediate. As the p→p donor-acceptor bond continues to strengthen, that is the C-O bond continues to shorten, the intermediate generates product （P＋C2H4） via transition state. It is the substituent electronegativity that mainly affect the extraction reactions. When the substituent electronegativity is greater, the energy barrier is lower, and the reaction rate is greater.
The mechanism of the cycloadditohn reaction of singlet difluorosilylene with formaldehyde have been studied by RHF/6-311G* gradient method. The electron correlation energy corrections of energies for all the structures were computed using second-order Moller-Plesset perturbation theory(MP2). The results show that this reaction proceeds via two steps:1)Difluorosilylene and formaldehyde form an intermediate complex, it is an exothermal reaction with no barrier.2) The intermediate complex isomerizes to form the product, after being corrected by zero-point energies, the barrier is 127.28 kJ·mol-1 (MP2/6-311G* 6-311G*).
