Molecular boron clusters

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Molecular boron clusters

Sivaev I.

This chapter describes recent progress in the chemistry of molecular boron clusters. The greatest attention is paid to the
intensively developing chemistry of closo-decaborate [B10H10]2- and closo-dodecaborate [B12H12]2- anions. Of the
compounds with an open nido- and arachno-structures, the latest achievements in the chemistry of decaborane [B10H14] and macropolyhedral borane anti-[B18H22] attract the most attention.

Keywords: boranes

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Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry III

Vol. 1. , Elsevier, 2023.

Catalytic insertion of nitrenes into B-H bonds

Ankudinov N., Alexeev N., Podyacheva E. et al., Chemical Science 2025 Vol. 16 No. 15 P. 6298–6306

Organic compounds with boron–nitrogen bonds are widely used as fluorescent sensors and semiconducting materials. This paper presents a new approach for the formation of B–N bonds via catalytic insertion of nitrenes into B–H bonds. The reaction proceeds most selectively for cyclic boranes with a 2-phenylpyridine framework and nitrenes generated in situ by the oxidation of ...

Added: February 15, 2026

Synthesis of chiral boranes via asymmetric insertion of carbenes into B–H bonds catalyzed by the rhodium(I) diene complex

Ankudinov N., Komarova A., Evgeniya S. Podyacheva et al., Chemical Communications 2024 Vol. 60 No. 65 P. 8601–8604

Molecules with chiral boron atoms have been scarcely studied due to limited synthetic access. Herein, we report a new method for their synthesis via asymmetric insertion of arydiazoacetates into the B–H bonds of prochiral carbene–boranes NHC–BH2R. The reaction is catalyzed by the rhodium(I) complex with the chiral diene ligand tBu2-TFB, which can be conveniently prepared by ...

Added: February 23, 2025

Polyhedral Boranes and Carboranes

Igor B. Sivaev, , in: Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry IV. Volume 9: Groups 11 to 13Vol. 9.: Elsevier, 2022. Ch. 9.05 P. 196–262.

Added: January 29, 2023