COMMUNICATIONS Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2000, 39, No. 2  WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, 2000 0570-0833/00/3902-0337 $ 17.50+.50/0 337 Counterintuitive to the known behavior of nido clusters, two-electron oxidative polymerization of nido-Ge 4 9 provides chains of vertex-linked nido-Ge 4 9 clusters. Find out more on the following pages.