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Two Shared Icosahedral Metallacarboranes through Iron: A Joint Experimental and Theoretical Refinement of Mössbauer Spectrum in [Fe(1,2-C2B9H11)2]Cs

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Synthesis of Composites of DNA and Boron Cluster‐Metal Complexes and their Assembly into Functional Nanoparticles with Gene Silencing Activity

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Electrochemistry of Cobalta Bis(dicarbollide) Ions Substituted at Carbon Atoms with Hydrophilic Alkylhydroxy and Carboxy Groups

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Molecules, 2022, 27, 1761
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Quantum Chemical and Biological Insights into Redox Activity of Metallacarborane Complexes in Cancer Cells

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J. Chem. Inf. Model., 2024, 64, 6521
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Aggregation of metallacarborane mixtures in aqueous solutions: Iron bis(1,2-dicarbollide) as paramagnetic probe in aggregates of diamagnetic cobalt bis(1,2-dicarbollide)

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