Access to cationic polyhedral carboranes via dynamic cage surgery with N-heterocyclic carbenes

In comparison to their neutral or anionic counterparts, examples of cationic boron clusters remain scarce. Here, the authors prepare a variety of cationic polyhedral boranes by reacting closo-10-vertex carboranes with N-heterocyclic carbenes; the resulting open-cage cationic nido- arachno- or closo-...

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Main Authors: Jan Vrána, Josef Holub, Maksim A. Samsonov, Zdeňka Růžičková, Josef Cvačka, Michael L. McKee, Jindřich Fanfrlík, Drahomír Hnyk, Aleš Růžička
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25277-0