Oxidation of tetrabenzofulvalene derivatives 1-5 containing fluorenylidene and 5-7-membered rings resulted in the formation of dications which are effectively fluorenyl cations with perpendicular cyclic substituents. The observed paratropicity of the fluorenyl cation in these systems is attributed to an antiaromatic ring current, after evaluation of the effects of geometry, charge density, and polarity of the medium, and is dependent on the geometry and electronic character of the cyclic substituent. A linear relationship between the 1 H shifts of appropriate protons of the fluorenyl system and 13 C shift of carbon a suggests that the effect of the substituent is transmitted through cross-hyperconjugation.

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The chloroplatinic acid or platinum(II) bromide-catalyzed reaction of arachno-6,8-C 2 B 7 H 13 with ethylene results in hydroboration to yield the single product 7-(C 2 H 5 )-arachno-6,8-C 2 B 7 H 12 . Analogous reactions with 1-pentene or styrene yield a mixture of both hydroboration, 7-R-arachno-6,8-C 2 B 7 H 12 , and dehydrogenative borylation, 7-(trans-R-CHdCH)-arachno-6,8-C 2 B 7 H 12 , products. On the other hand, the palladium(II) bromidecatalyzed reaction of arachno-6,8-C 2 B 7 H 13 with ethylene yields predominantly the dehydrogenative borylation product (7-(CH 2 dCH)-arachno-6,8-C 2 B 7 H 12 along with smaller amounts of 7-(C 2 H 5 )-arachno-6,8-C 2 B 7 H 12 . Palladium(II) bromide-catalyzed reactions with 1-pentene or styrene result in only dehydrogenative borylation to produce 7-(trans-R-CHdCH)-arachno-6,8-C 2 B 7 H 12 . The hydroboration and dehydrogenative borylation products observed in the platinum-and palladium-catalyzed reactions are related to those that have been observed in recently reported metal-catalyzed hydrosilations and catecholborane or pinacolborane hydroborations and are consistent with a reaction mechanism involving competitive hydride-migration/reductive-elimination and boryl-migration/β-hydride-elimination steps. Crystallographic and DFT computational studies of the alkenylcarbaboranes have also revealed unusual cage-bonding features that suggest π-bonding interactions of the B7 cage boron with its olefinic substituent.

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Deprotonation of the phosphamonocarbaborane, exo-6-R-arachno-6,7-PCB(8)H(12) (R = Ph 1a or Me 1b), yields exo-6-R-arachno-6,7-PCB(8)H(11)(-), which when reacted with appropriate transition-metal reagents affords new metallaphosphamonocarbaborane complexes in which the metals adopt endo-eta(1), exo-eta(1), eta(4), eta(5), or eta(6) coordination geometries bonded to the formal R-arachno-PCB(8)H(11)(-), R-arachno-PCB(8)H(10)(2-), R-arachno-PCB(8)H(9)(3-), or R-nido-PCB(8)H(9)(-) ligands. The reaction of exo-6-(C(6)H(5))-arachno-6,7-PCB(8)H(11)(-) (1a-) with Mn(CO)(5)Br generated the eta(1)-sigma product exo-6-[Mn(CO)(5)]-endo-6-(C(6)H(5))-arachno-6,7-PCB(8)H(11) (2) having the [Mn(CO)(5)] fragment in the thermodynamically favored exo position at the P6 cage atom. On the other hand, reaction of 1a- with (eta(5)-C(5)H(5))Fe(CO)(2)I resulted in the formation of two products, an eta(1)-sigma complex endo-6-[(eta(5)-C(5)H(5))Fe(CO)(2)]-exo-6-(C(6)H(5))-arachno-6,7-PCB(8)H(11) (3) having the (eta(5)-C(5)H(5))Fe(CO)(2) fragment attached at the endo-P6 position and an eta(6)-closo complex, 1-(eta(5)-C(5)H(5))-2-(C(6)H(5))-closo-1,2,3-FePCB(8)H(9) (4a). Rearrangement of the endo-compound 3 to its exo-isomer 5 was observed upon photolysis of 3. Synthesis of the methyl analogue of 4a, 1-(eta(5)-C(5)H(5))-2-CH(3)-closo-1,2,3-FePCB(8)H(9) (4b), along with a double-insertion product, 1-CH(3)-2,3-(eta(5)-C(5)H(5))(2)-2,3,1,7-Fe(2)PCB(8)H(9) (6), containing two iron atoms eta(5)-coordinated to a formal R-arachno-PCB(8)H(9)(3-), was achieved by reaction of exo-6-CH(3)-arachno-6,7-PCB(8)H(11)(-) (1b-) with FeCl(2) and Na(+)C(5)H(5)(-). Complexes 4a and 4b can be considered ferrocene analogues, in which an Fe(II) is sandwiched between C(5)H(5)(-) and 6-R-nido-6,9-PCB(8)H(9)(-) anions. Reaction of exo-6-(C(6)H(5))-arachno-6,7-PCB(8)H(11)(-) (1a-) with cis-dichlorobis(triphenylphosphine)platinum (II) afforded two compounds, an eta(1)-sigma complex with the metal fragment again in the endo-P6 position, endo-6-[cis-(Ph(3)P)(2)PtCl]-exo-6-(C(6)H(5))-arachno-6,7-PCB(8)H(11) (7) and an eta(4)-complex, 7-(C(6)H(5))-11-(Ph(3)P)(2)-nido-11,7,8-PtPCB(8)H(10) (8) containing the formal R-arachno-PCB(8)H(10)(2)(-) anion. The structures of compounds 2, 3, 4a, 4b, 6, 7, and 8 were crystallographically confirmed.