Large water-soluble anions with chaotropic character display surprisingly strong
supramolecular interactions in water, for example, with macrocyclic receptors, polymers …

The cobalt bis (dicarbollide)(1−) anion (1−),[(1, 2-C2B9H11) 2-3, 3′-Co (III)](1−), plays an
increasingly important role in material science and medicine due to its high chemical …

Polyoxometalates (POMs) are known antitumoral, antibacterial, antiviral, and anticancer
agents and considered as next‐generation metallodrugs. Herein, a new biological …

Intracellular protein delivery has the potential to revolutionize cell-biological research and
medicinal therapy, with broad applications in bioimaging, disease treatment, and genome …

Perhalogenated closo‐borates represent a new class of membrane carriers. They owe this
activity to their chaotropicity, which enables the transport of hydrophilic molecules across …

Boron clusters are applied in medicinal chemistry because of their high stability in biological
environments and intrinsic ability to capture neutrons. However, their intermolecular …

Boron neutron capture therapy represents a promising avenue for cancer treatment that
requires nontoxic drugs with a high boron content efficiently distributed into cancerous cells …

Membrane-permeable fluorescent dyes that stain DNA are useful reagents for microscopic
imaging, as they can be introduced into living cells to label DNA. However, the number of …

Metallacarboranes, exemplified by cobalt bis (dicarbollide)([COSAN]−), have excelled their
historical metallocene analogue label to become promising in drug design, medical studies …

Anionic boron clusters, such as [B12X12] 2−(X= Cl, Br, I), have attracted attention in
pharmaceuticals due to their unique superchaotropic properties. In particular,[B12Br12] …