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In recent decades, carbene chemistry has made considerable advances and has demonstrated remarkable abilities in the formation of diverse chemical bonds and the synthesis of structurally distinctive molecules. Nevertheless, the majority of research within this field has concentrated on \u03b1-carbon-substituted carbenes, with comparatively little investigation of carbenes that have been functionalized with a wider structural variety, particularly those that have been substituted with heteroatoms (e.g., O, N, P, S, Si, Ge, Sn and B). 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