Carborane: Dedicated to the Work of Professor Alan Welch

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022
• Subjects: 1′-bis(o-carborane); 2-dicarbollide; bis(nickelation); boron chemistry; boron clusters; boron neutron capture therapy; carbonium ylide; carborane; carboranes; cholesterol; chromium bis; crystal and molecular structure; cysteine; deboronation; DFT; diastereoisomers; dihalogen bond; electric conductivity; electron density; ELF; fluorescence; iodo derivatives; iron bis; labeled compound; Lewis acid; liquid crystals; metalation; n/a; nickel(II) half-sandwich complexes; nido-carborane; nitrilium derivatives; o-carborane; o-carborane decapitation; quantum chemical calculations; quantum chemistry; radical-cation salts; reaction pathways; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Research and information: general; stereospecific; structure; sulfa-Michael addition reaction; synthesis; tetramethyltetraselenafulvalene; tetramethyltetrathiafulvalene; tetrel bond; X-ray structure

This Special Issue on carboranes is dedicated to Prof. Alan Welch on the occasion of his retirement and his outstanding contributions to the field of carborane chemistry. Polyhedral carboranes lie at the interface of organic and inorganic chemistry. One of their most attractive and important feature...