carborane
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1,883 papers- Carborane-Containing Polymers: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications.ACS polymers Au · 2024
- Carborane-based BODIPY dyes: synthesis, structural analysis, photophysics and applications.Frontiers in chemistry · 2024
- Carborane Nanomembranes.ACS nano · 2025
- Towards carborane-functionalised structures for the treatment of brain cancer.Drug discovery today · 2018
- Isomeric Carborane Neuromuscular Blocking Agents.ChemMedChem · 2019
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17 sectionsContents
- Structure and bonding
- Isomers
- Preparation
- Monocarba derivatives
- Dicarba clusters
- Classification by cage size
- Small, open carboranes
- Small, closed carboranes
- Intermediate-sized carboranes
- Structures
- Syntheses
- Icosahedral carboranes
- Reactions
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Carboranes (or carbaboranes) are electron-delocalized (non-classically bonded) clusters composed of boron, carbon and hydrogen atoms. Like many of the related boron hydrides, these clusters are polyhedra or fragments of polyhedra. Carboranes are one class of heteroboranes.
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