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 …

Nitroxide-mediated polymerization

J Nicolas, Y Guillaneuf, C Lefay, D Bertin… - Progress in Polymer …, 2013 - Elsevier
Nitroxide-mediated polymerization (NMP) is a controlled/living radical polymerization
(CLRP) technique that enables the design of well-defined, functional and complex …

Dendron-mediated self-assembly, disassembly, and self-organization of complex systems

BM Rosen, CJ Wilson, DA Wilson, M Peterca… - Chemical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
1.1 Background Dendrimers and dendrons are architectural motifs synthesized by either
divergent or convergent iterative methods, and therefore, they provide monodisperse …

[HTML][HTML] Icosahedral boron clusters: a perfect tool for the enhancement of polymer features

R Núñez, I Romero, F Teixidor, C Viñas - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Boron clusters and organic molecules display manifestly different electronic, physical,
chemical and geometrical characteristics. These differences highlight the complementarity of …

[HTML][HTML] Poly (amidoamine), polypropylenimine, and related dendrimers and dendrons possessing different 1→ 2 branching motifs: An overview of the divergent …

GR Newkome, CD Shreiner - Polymer, 2008 - Elsevier
This review presents an overview of 1→ 2 branched dendrimers and dendrons, created by a
divergent procedure, from their synthesis to modern day applications. The first members of …

Synthesis and Properties of Carborane-Appended C3-Symmetrical Extended π Systems

BP Dash, R Satapathy, ER Gaillard… - Journal of the …, 2010 - ACS Publications
A series of C 3-symmetric π-conjugated compounds containing three to six o-carborane
clusters have been synthesized by employing palladium-catalyzed Suzuki coupling …

Tuning polymer thickness: synthesis and scaling theory of homologous series of dendronized polymers

Y Guo, JD van Beek, B Zhang, M Colussi… - Journal of the …, 2009 - ACS Publications
The thickness of dendronized polymers can be tuned by varying their generation g and the
dendron functionality X. Systematic studies of this effect require (i) synthetic ability to …

Recent advances in carborane-siloxane polymers

J Sun, M Gao, L Zhao, Y Zhao, T Li, K Chen… - Reactive and Functional …, 2022 - Elsevier
The rapid development in aerospace, automobile, and chemical industry has put forward
demands on polymeric materials which are able to maintain their structures and …

[HTML][HTML] Dendritic Structures Functionalized with Boron Clusters, in Particular Carboranes, and Their Biological Properties

AM Caminade, M Milewski, E Hey-Hawkins - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The presence of a large number of boron atoms in boron clusters make them attractive tools
for the treatment of cancer using boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT). Since the quantity …

o-Carborane, Ferrocene, and Phthalocyanine Triad for High-Mobility Organic Field-Effect Transistors

I Nar, A Atsay, A Altındal, E Hamuryudan - Inorganic Chemistry, 2018 - ACS Publications
An unsymmetrical zinc phthalocyanine with ferrocenylcarborane linked to the
phthalocyanine ring through a phenylethynyl spacer was designed for organic field-effect …