“…Nevertheless, values of similar magnitude, 1.976 and 1.995 Å, were established, e.g., in the microwave study of closo-1,6-C 2 B 7 H 9 . 23 The GIAO-HF results for all molecules suggest that the corresponding MP2/6-31G* geometries can be deemed reasonably good representations of the geometries of relatively free molecules in solution. Comparison between theoretical and experimental 11 B chemical shifts in Table 1 generally reveals reasonable agreement, at least the calculated values follow the general trends in experimental shifts.…”