A further contribution from the working group Interactions of Inorganic Clusters, Cages, and Containers with Light within the AV21 Strategy, Czech Academy of Sciences describes the development of a novel synthetic methods to the production of anti-B18H22 in using transition-metal elements in the oxidative fusion of small borane clusters. This contribution presents the results from such a reaction between K[arachno-B9H14] with [NiCl2(dppe)], in which we describe the synthesis and full structural characterisation of four new macropolyhderal nickelaboranes, one of which uniquely displays a structural geometric change from ‘anti’ to ‘syn’ configuration!
Michael G. S. Londesborough*, Ramón Macías, John D. Kennedy, William Clegg, Jonathan Bould*, Inorg. Chem. 2019, 58, 19, 13258-67.