“…Cyanoborate anions are known to be important building blocks for materials chemistry, for example, for metal organic frameworks, ionic liquids (ILs), or metal complexes due to their readily tunable properties. , For this reason, their synthesis and functionalization as well as the modification of their chemical and physical properties has been in the focus of interest since almost 2 decades, when first syntheses of salts of the homoleptic tetracyanoborate anion [B(CN) 4 ] − ( TCB ) were published. , Since then, other syntheses for TCB salts have been developed, which include a straightforward solid-state sinter process , and efficient Lewis acid-catalyzed reactions. − Related salts of the monohydridotricyanoborate anion [BH(CN) 3 ] − ( MHB ), ,− the dihydridodicyanoborate anion [BH 2 (CN) 2 ] − ( DHB ), ,− and the monofluorotricyanoborate anion [BF(CN) 3 ] − ( MFB ) ,,,,,− have been intensively studied in recent years as well. , Further examples of tricyanoborate anions of the general formula [RB(CN) 3 ] − are perfluoroalkyl, − per- and polyfluoroaryl, alkyl, alkoxy, , and chloro functionalized anions (Figure ).…”