Solubility problems solved: The first examples of discrete soluble zinc dihydride adducts with NHC ligands reacted with CO2 to produce formate species and efficiently catalyzed the dehydrocoupling of silanes with methanol. These compounds were characterized both in solution and in the solid state (see picture). Copyright © 2013 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.