New class of metallacarboranes incorporating the h7-carboranyl
ligand*
Zuowei Xie
Department of Chemistry, The Chinese University of
Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, P. R. China
Abstract: This article provides an overview of our work on the
synthesis, molecular structure, and bonding of a novel class of 13-vertex
closo-metallacarboranes incorporating the h7-carboranyl ligand.
This bonding mode can only be observed in the d0/fn
transition-metal ions with the proper size.
* Lecture presented at the XIXth International Conference
on Organometallic Chemistry (XIX ICOMC) , Shanghai, China, 23-28 July
2000. Other presentations are published in this issue, pp. 205-376.
** Corresponding author
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