- are
polyhedra or
fragments of polyhedra.
Carboranes are one
class of heteroboranes. In
terms of scope,
carboranes can have as few as 5 and as many as 14...
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Carborane acids H(CXB 11Y 5Z 6) (X, Y, Z = H, Alk, F, Cl, Br, CF3) are a
class of superacids, some of
which are
estimated to be at
least one
million times...
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Russell N.
Grimes (2016). "10.
Icosahedral Carboranes: 1,7-C2B10H12 and 1,12-C2B10H12".
Carboranes, 3rd Edition. Elsevier. ISBN 978-0-12-801905-4...
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patterns seen in hydrocarbons.
Hybrids of
boranes and hydrocarbons, the
carboranes are also well developed. The
development of the
chemistry of
boranes led...
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Halides of
carbon without hydrogen (e.g., CF4 and CClF3),
phosgene (COCl2),
carboranes,
metal carbonyls (e.g.,
nickel tetracarbonyl),
mellitic anhydride (C12O9)...
- by the
polyhedral skeletal electron pair theory, such as
boranes and
carboranes.
These molecules derive their stability from
having a
completely filled...
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concentrated weak
acids are corrosive, but
there are
exceptions such as
carboranes and
boric acid. The
second category of
acids are
Lewis acids,
which form...
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tetraiodide (CI4), and a
large number of
other carbon-halogen compounds. A
carborane is a
cluster composed of
boron and
carbon atoms such as H2C2B10H10. There...
- Organometallics. 23: 3590–3602. doi:10.1021/om049822l. Grimes, R. N.,
Carboranes 3rd Ed., Elsevier,
Amsterdam and New York (2016), ISBN 978-0-12-801894-1...
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cluster compounds with
carbon vertices are
carboranes; the best
known is orthocarborane, C2B10H12.
Carboranes have few
commercial applications. Anionic...
