Contemporary Boron Chemistry

The continued and evolving significance of boron chemistry to the wider chemical community is demonstrated by the international and interdisciplinary nature of the research reported in this book. Contemporary Boron Chemistry encompasses inorganic and organic compounds as well as polymers, solid-state materials, medicinal aspects and theoretical studies. Covering many areas of chemistry with boron at its centre, topics include applications to polyolefin catalysis, medicine, materials and polymers; boron cluster chemistry, including carboranes and metal-containing clusters; organic and inorganic chemistry of species containing only 1 or 2 boron atoms; and theoretical studies of boron-containing compounds. New materials with novel optical and electronic properties are also discussed. Comprehensive and up to date, graduates and researchers in a wide range of fields, particularly those in organometallic and organic chemistry and materials science, will welcome this book.

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Contemporary Boron Chemistry Editors: Matthew G Davidson, Ken Wade, T B Marder, Andrew K Hughes

Front cover

front matter

Preface

Acknowledgements

Contents

Professor Stanislav Heřmánek

Applications to polyolefin catalysis

Ethylene oligomerization and polymerization catalysts supported by boratabenzene ligands

Borate, boryl and borole compounds and their role in olefin polymerisation catalysis

Group 4 complexes derived from o-Carborane: catalytic and luminescent properties

Cationic metallocenes derived from cyclic organo-hydroborate metallocene complexes

Organolanthanide complexes bearing versatile ligands

Aluminoxanes via boron compounds

Highly fluorinated closo-borane and -carborane anions

Materials and polymers

A new class of π-conjugated organoboron polymers

Catalytic syntheses of linear polycarboranes

Thermal, photochemical, and redox reactions of borane and metallaborane clusters with applications to molecular electronics

Engineered fullerenes-carborane conjugated rods: New hybrid materials for NLO devices

Aminoboranes as versatile precursors of boron nitride: Preparation of BN matrices, coatings and fibres

Boron-containing, non-oxide ceramics from organometallic polymers: Synthesis, thermolysis and the influence of boron on materials thermal stability

Borosilicate cage chemistry

Acid—base properties of anhydrous borate systems

Synthesis and Lewis acidity of organo B-O-Si and B-O-Sn derivatives

Synthesis and properties of vanadoborate cluster materials

Medicinal applications

Synthesis of boron-rich building blocks for phosphodiester oligomers in boron neutron capture therapy

The development of boron neutron capture agents utilizing positron emission tomography

Synthesis and evaluation of DNA tumor targeting agents for neutron capture therapy

Stabilised liposomes with double targeting for use in BNCT

Synthesis of O-bonded derivatives of closo-dodecaborate anion. [B12]-[C2B10] double cage boron compounds—a new approach to synthesis of BNCT agents

A new medicinal application of boron clusters. Potent nuclear receptor ligands bearing carborane as a hydrophobic pharmacophore

Closo-dodecaborate (2-) anion as a prosthetic group for labelling proteins with astatine

Effect of ionising radiation on the labelling of closo-dodecaborate(2-) anion with 125I

Cluster synthesis

A convincing evidence of the S+ charge in SB11H11 and its derivatives

Reactions of the undecaborate anion [B11H11]2-

Synthesis of schiff bases and monoalkylamino derivatives of closo-dodecaborate(2-) anion

Chemistry of inner sulfonium salts of dodecaborane

Macropolyhedral boron-containing cluster chemistry. Further progress beyond the icosahedron. July 1999

Progress in the chemistry of fused-cage boranes and heteroboranes

Synthesis and structural characterisation of the anion nido-[B8H11]-, and new insights into the structures of other octaborane species

Tetraboranes of the type B4R4, B4H2R4 and B4H4R4

Carboranes

Broadening the conflux of boron and carbon chemistries

Skeletal rearrangements following electrophilic alkylation of 7,8- and 7,9-dicarbollide anions (a review)

New routes to carboranes

New routes to small carboranes

Studies of icosahedral carboranes with iminotris(dimethylamino)phosphorane, HNP(NMe2)3

Novel organic derivatives of carboranes: Synthesis and chemical properties

Synthesis and properties of some novel o-carborane-containing synthons

Unusual double silylation reactions of bis(si1yl)metal complexes with o-carboranyl unit

Cyclisation of cage-carborane compounds using transition metal catalysts and carbene intermediates

Metallaboranes

Intercomparison of syntheses and structures of mono- and dimetallaboranes containing transition metals from groups 5-9

Reactions of bidentate phosphines with metallaboranes: possible routes to linked cluster systems

Preparation of bidentate phosphine derivatives and their reactions with nido-[(PPh3)2(CO)OsB,H9]: Crystal and molecular structure of [(p-cym)RuC12PPh2.CH2C6H4CH2Ph2P.BH3]

Metal borides: Interstitial boron at the molecular level

Metallaheteroboranes

Boron-functionalized MC2B4 and MC2B3M' clusters and their applications

The ligating properties of the anionic rhenacarboranes [Re(CO)3(n5-7,8-C2B9H11)]- and [Re(CO)3(n5-7-CB 10H11)]2-

Carboranes and metallacarboranes: Chemistry in new directions

Pyrrole and o-carborane

Metallacarboranes and metal amides

Novel osmacarboranes: Reactivity and application to the syntheses of exo-Os-closo-M'-bimetallacarboranes

Towards experimental mapping of the mechanism of heteroborane isomerisation

Metallatricarbollide ligands - analogues of [-n5-C5H5]-

Clusters from organoboranes and electron-poor metal complexes

Chemistry of silaboranes

Synthesis, structures and coordination chemistry of new phosphamonocarboranes

Organic and inorganic chemistry of mono- and Di-boron systems

Transition metal complexes of boron

Boryl complexes of ruthenium and osmium

Organoboron compounds of the heavier group 14 elements

Recent advances in diborane(4) chemistry

H—D exchange reaction of borane—lewis base adducts by rhenium polyhydride complexes

Rhodium-catalyzed addition reactions of organoboronic acids

Metal-catalyzed routes to alpha-heteroatom-substituted boronic acids and boronate esters

Organoborane dienophiles as 1-alkene equivalents, terpenylboranes, and catalytic hydroboration of conjugated dienes and enynes

Effect of ionising radiation on the labelling of closo-dodecaborate(2^-) anion with ¹²⁵I

A convincing evidence of the S⁺ charge in SB11H11 and its derivatives

Reactions of the undecaborate anion [B11H11]^2-

Synthesis and structural characterisation of the anion nido-[B8H11]^-, and new insights into the structures of other octaborane species