Carboranes in drug discovery, chemical biology and molecular imaging

A Marfavi, P Kavianpour, LM Rendina - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
There exists a paucity of structural innovation and limited molecular diversity associated with
molecular frameworks in drug discovery and biomolecular imaging/chemical probe design …

Electrochemistry and photoluminescence of icosahedral carboranes, boranes, metallacarboranes, and their derivatives

R Núñez, M Tarrés, A Ferrer-Ugalde… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Icosahedral boranes, carboranes, and metallacarboranes are extraordinarily robust
compounds with desirable properties such as thermal and redox stability, chemical …

Solid‐State Emission of the Anthracene‐o‐Carborane Dyad from the Twisted‐Intramolecular Charge Transfer in the Crystalline State

H Naito, K Nishino, Y Morisaki… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The emission process of the o‐carborane dyad with anthracene originating from the twisted
intramolecular charge transfer (TICT) state in the crystalline state is described. The …

Controlled functionalization of o-carborane via transition metal catalyzed B–H activation

Y Quan, Z Xie - Chemical Society Reviews, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Carboranes, a class of carbon–boron molecular clusters, are often viewed as three-
dimensional analogues of benzene. They are finding increasing applications as useful …

Facile Construction of New Hybrid Conjugation via Boron Cage Extension

F Sun, S Tan, HJ Cao, C Lu, D Tu… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Aromatic polycyclic systems have been extensively utilized as structural subunits for the
preparation of various functional molecules. Currently, aromatics-based polycyclic systems …

Water-Stable Carborane-Based Eu3+/Tb3+ Metal–Organic Frameworks for Tunable Time-Dependent Emission Color and Their Application in Anticounterfeiting Bar …

Z Li, R Núñez, ME Light, E Ruiz, F Teixidor… - Chemistry of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Luminescent lanthanide metal–organic frameworks (Ln-MOFs) have been shown to exhibit
relevant optical properties of interest for practical applications, though their implementation …

Recent Advances in Transition Metal-Catalyzed Selective BH Functionalization of o-Carboranes

YK Au, Z Xie - Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Carboranes are a class of carbon-boron molecular clusters, possessing extraordinary
characteristics including three-dimensional aromaticity conjugated by σ-bonds, icosahedral …

Macropolyhedral syn-B18H22, the “Forgotten” Isomer

DK Patel, BS Sooraj, K Kirakci… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The chemistry and physics of macropolyhedral B18H22 clusters have attracted significant
attention due to the interesting photophysical properties of anti-B18H22 (blue emission …

Blue Phosphorescent Zwitterionic Iridium(III) Complexes Featuring Weakly Coordinating nido-Carborane-Based Ligands

JC Axtell, KO Kirlikovali, PI Djurovich… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We report the development of a new class of phosphorescent zwitterionic bis (heteroleptic) Ir
(III) compounds containing pyridyl ligands with weakly coordinating nido-carboranyl …

Luminescent metal complexes featuring photophysically innocent boron cluster ligands

KO Kirlikovali, JC Axtell, A Gonzalez, AC Phung… - Chemical …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
We report the synthesis and characterization of a series of d8 metal complexes featuring
robust and photophysically innocent strong-field chelating 1, 1′-bis (o-carborane)(bc) …