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The chemistry described above exemplifies the great similarity between aromatic polyhedral borane chemistry and the aromatic branch of organic chemistry. Modular syntheses with carboranes and polyhedral borane derivatives as well as the discovery of a variety of camouflaged derivatives clearly reveals the tentacles of organic chemistry reaching into the polyhedral borane field. Thus, the conflux of boron and carbon chemistries is broadened and strengthened. Combination of this new chemistry with previously elucidated metal chemistry provides a totally manmade field of chemistry of infinite scope. Toralf Peymann, Axel Herzog, Carolyn B. Knobler, and M. Frederick Hawthorne, "Aromatic Polyhedral Hydroxyborates: Bridging Boron Oxides and Boron Hydrides," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 38(8), 1061, (1999). Toralf Peymann, Carolyn B. Knobler, and M. Frederick Hawthorne, "An Unpaired Electron Incarcerated Within an Icosahedral Borane Cage: Synthesis and Crystal Structure of the Blue, Air-Stable {[closo-B12(CH3)12].}- Radical," Chem. Comm., 2039 (1999). Axel Herzog, Andreas Maderna, George N. Harakas, Carolyn B. Knobler and M. Frederick Hawthorne, "A Camouflaged Nido-Carborane Anion: Facile Synthesis of Octa-B-methyl-1,2-dicarba-closo-dodecaborane(12) and Its Deboration Reaction," Chem. Eur. J., 5, 1212, (1999). Axel Herzog, Carolyn B. Knobler and M. Frederick Hawthorne, "Adaptation of the Barton Reaction to Carborane Chemistry: The Synthesis and Reactivity of 2-Hydroxyimino-1-hydroxymethylnona-B-methyl-1,12-dicarba-closo-dodecaborane(12)," Angew. Chem., 37, 1552, (1998). Wei Jiang, Carolyn B. Knobler, Mark D. Mortimer, and M. Frederick Hawthorne, "A Camouflaged Icosahedral Carborane: Dodecamethyl-1,12-dicarba-closo-dodecarborane(12) and Related Compounds," Angew. Chem., 34, 1332, (1995). |