The chemistry of the p-block elements is a huge playground for fundamental and applied
work. With their bonding from electron deficient to hypercoordinate and formally hypervalent …

This Viewpoint describes major advances pertaining to perfunctionalized boron clusters in
synthesis and their respective applications. The first portion of this work highlights key …

The closo-dodecaborate dianions [B 12 X 12] 2−(X= halogen, CN) have been recognized in
recent years for their outstanding physical and chemical properties. Gas-phase ion …

Trisubstituted closo‐dodecaborates with B− O, B− N, and B− C bonds as well as a fused
borane oxazole ring have been synthesized by rhodium‐catalyzed direct cage B− H …

The stability and electron loss process of numerous multiply charged anions (MCAs) have
been traditionally explained in terms of the classical Coulomb interaction between spatially …

Phosphane and N‐heterocyclic carbene ligated gold (I) chlorides can be effectively
activated by Na [Me3NB12Cl11](1) under silver‐free conditions. This activation method with …

Organic frameworks face a trade‐off between the framework stability and the bond
dynamics, which necessitates the development of innovative linkages that can generate …

Hydrogen-substituted silylium ions are long-sought reactive species. We report a protolysis
strategy that chemoselectively cleaves either an Si–C (sp2) or an Si–H bond using a …

The synthesis and application of icosahedral boron cluster compounds has been studied
extensively since their discovery several decades ago; however, two aspects of their …

It is common and chemically intuitive to assign cations electrophilic and anions nucleophilic
reactivity, respectively. Herein, we demonstrate a striking violation of this concept: The anion …