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 …

Is there anything resembling a truly noncoordinating anion? Would it not be great to be able
to prepare any crazy, beautiful, or simply useful cationic species that one has in mind, or has …

Once seldom encountered outside of a few laboratories, carboranes are now everywhere,
playing a role in the development of a broad range of technologies encompassing organic …

Gibt es so etwas wie ein wirklich nichtkoordinierendes Anion? Wäre es nicht großartig, jede
verrückte, schöne oder einfach nur nützliche kationische Spezies herstellen zu können, sei …

Evidence for a three-coordinate silyl cation is provided by the crystal structure of [(Mes)
3Si][H-CB11Me5Br6]· C6H6 (where Mes is 2, 4, 6-trimethylphenyl). Free (Mes) 3Si+ cations …

Polyhedral boranes and carborane clusters are characterized by delocalized electron
deficient bonding, meaning that there are too few valence electrons for bonding to be …

Polyhedral borane and carborane clusters are characterized by delocalized electron-
deficient bonding, meaning that there are too few valence electrons for bonding to be …

That methyl groups attached to carbon atoms are electron donors must not be generally
assumed. In boron clusters, Me groups on boron are electron withdrawing. At the B3LYP/6 …

Despite the rapid development of frustrated Lewis pair (FLP) chemistry over the last ten
years, its application in catalytic hydrogenations remains dependent on a narrow family of …

New applications in which the carborane and metallacarborane species play a crucial role
have been recently developed. In these applications, clusters display many particular …