Carborane: Dedicated to the Work of Professor Alan Welch
A special issue of Crystals (ISSN 2073-4352). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Crystalline Materials".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2021) | Viewed by 21259
Special Issue Editors
Interests: carboranes; metal complexes of polyhedral boron compound
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Dear Colleagues,
The discovery of polyhedral boron hydrides, including carboranes, was one of the most significant discoveries of 20th-century chemistry. Since then, many different derivatives of carboranes have been obtained and they remain the focus of intense research. The unusual physical and chemical properties of polyhedral boron compounds find a wide range of real and potential applications ranging from medicine to supramolecular chemistry, catalysis, and the design of new materials.
This Special Issue is devoted to research in the field of fundamental properties of, and prospects for using, polyhedral boron hydrides and, in particular, carboranes.
In this context, the aim of this Special Issue, entitled “Carboranes”, is to provide a comprehensive overview of new developments in the chemistry of carborane derivatives with special focus on their structures.
We are pleased to invite you to submit a manuscript to this Special Issue. We welcome original research papers, communications, and reviews.
Dr. Marina Yu. Stogniy
Dr. Georgina Rosair
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- carboranes
- metallocarboranes
- polyhedral boron compounds
- fundamentals
- applications
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