Metallacarborane‐Based Nanostructures: A Carbon‐Wired Planar Octagon

Tuning the Selectivity of AuPd Nanoalloys towards Selective Dehydrogenative Alkyne Silylation

“…Due to the mild conditions generally employed in these processes, alkynylsilanes represent highly versatile intermediates for late stage functionalization and as substrates for cyclizations to form complex molecular architectures –. As examples, they have been successfully applied to prepare electronically, mechanically, and structurally interesting materials with strong triplet emission or high thermal stability –…”

Polyhedral boron clusters in materials science

“…36 Many coordination networks with carborane anions employ additional bridging ligands as connecting units. Some of the examples of such bidentate (dinitriles, pyz and bpy) and tridentate tris(pyamino)CTG ligands are shown in Fig. 13 (74)(75)(76)(77)(78). 36 A series of Ag(I) coordination networks with alkane-dinitriles NC-(CH 2 ) n -CN (n = 1-4) and carborane counter anions, such as (CB 11 H 12 ) À and Co(C 2 B 9 H 10 ) 2 À , were reported by Hardie's group.…”

“…Finally, dimerization of the rod shaped B(5,7) ethynyl derivatives with copper led to the formation of metallacarborane molecular box 103. 76 The syntheses of nanomachines such as motors, rotors, cars, trucks etc. that could perform tasks at the molecular level similar to what real macroscopic machines can perform have gained considerable momentum.…”

Quantum-Chemical Design of Molecular Quantum-Dot Cellular Automata (QCA): A New Approach from Frontier Molecular Orbitals

“…However, for improvement in operation temperature and size of the QCA devices, the idea of molecular quantum-dot cellular automata (molecular QCA) devices (5), in which a QDC constructed from small metallic dots is replaced by a single molecule, was proposed. Toward the experimental operation of molecular QCA devices, syntheses of tetranuclear complexes (6)(7)(8)(9)(10) and simplified dinuclear complexes (11; 12), and single-molecule observation of the dinuclear complexes (13)(14)(15)(16) have been paid attention. However, the capacity of molecular QCA devices for molecular computing is still not clear.…”