Table of Contents
Foreword: The The Patternmaker xi
Norman Greenwood Foreword: A Brief Overview xiiiWilliam N. Lipscomb
Preface xviiJoseph Casanova
Contributors xix
PART I: PATTERNS OF STRUCTURE IN BORANES AND CARBORANES 1
1 Vertex Homogeneity: The "Hidden Hand" that Governs Electron-Deficient Borane, Carborane, and Carbocation Structures 3Robert Williams
2 The Borane-Carborane Structural Pattern: Some Correlations and Implications 57Mark A.Fox and Kenneth Wade
3 Disobedient Skeletons 85John D. Kennedy
4 Seco-Systematization of Boranes and Heteroboranes 117Stanislav Hermánek
PART II: THE CARBORANE-CARBOCATION CONTINUUM 129
5 Boron Superelectrophiles and Their Carbocation Analogs 131George A. Olah
6 Extension of the Borane-Carbocation Continuum to Cage Systems 147G.K. Surya Prakash, Golam Rasul. Andrei K. Yudin, and Robert E. Williams
7 Are Polyhedral Boranes, Carboranes, and Carbocations Aromatic? 169Paul von Rague Schleyer and Katayoun Najafian
8 Electron Deficient Compounds and Theory Deficient People 191Robert W. Parry
PART III: UNTANGLING MOLECULAR STRUCTURES 215
9 Computational Studies of Nido-C4B7H11 Carboranes and Nido-8-Vertex Boranes and Carboranes 217Joseph W. Bausch and A.J. Tebben
10 Applications of IGLO/GIAO NMR Computations to Carborane Systems: Products of Trimethylamine/Closo-Carborane Reactions; Carborane 13C Chemical Shifts 247Thomas Onak
11 Mechanistic Patterns in Carborane Reactions as Revealed by ab initio Calculations 259Michael L. McKee
12 Reactions of Unsaturated Hydrocarbons with Small Boranes: New Insights and Recent Advances 289Robert Greatrex and Mark A. Fox
13 Recent Advances in Metallacarborane Sandwich Chemistry: Controlled Linking, Stacking, and Cool Fusion 307Russell N. Grimes
PART IV: NEW SPECIEIS OF BORANES AND CARBORANES 331
14 Isoelectronic Borane and Hydrocarbon Metal Complexes 333Thomas P. Fehlner
15 Cyclic Organohydroborate Anions: Hydride Transfer Reactions in the Reduction of Metal Carbonyls and Organic Functional Groups; Reactions with Zirconocene and Hafnocene Dichlorides 351Sheldon G. Shore, Glenn T. Jordan IV, JianPing Liu, Fu-Chen Liu, Edward A. Meyers, Paul L. Gaus
16 Importance of 11B-1H Coupling Constants in Assigning the 11B Signals 367Stanislav Hermánek, Jan Machacek, Jin Fusek, and Vratislav Blechta
17 Closo-and Nido-Clusters with a B4 or NB3 Skeleton 381Peter Paetzold
18 New Prespectives in the Chemistry of C2B4- and C4B8-Carboranes 397Narayan S. Hosmane and John A. Maguire
Index 425