“…Notwithstanding this, terminal borylene complexes are of significant interest, both from a structure/bonding perspective (e.g. elucidation of electronic structure and comparison with related -and more celebrated -group 14 systems such as carbonyl, carbenes, and vinylidenes) and from the viewpoint of developing and manipulating patterns of fundamental chemistry -in contrast to the indiscriminate and uncontrollable reactivity demonstrated by 'free' borylene [40]. A number of comprehensive review articles have been published, which deal with synthetic and structural issues for both bridging and terminal borylene complexes [4,6 -13]; this article will therefore not focus in depth on these areas, but will instead review recent studies of the reactivity of terminal borylene systems, which have the potential to contain a M¼ ¼B double bond, and which, for the most part, have been little investigated in this regard.…”