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Unprecedented steric deformation of ortho-carborane

B.W. Hutton, F. MacIntosh, David Ellis, F. Herisse, Stuart A. Macgregor, David McKay, V. Petrie-Armstrong, Georgina M. Rosair, Dmitry S. Perekalin, Hugo Tricas,

Chemical Communications · 2008 · 41 citations · 26 references

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Abstract

The reduction and subsequent oxidation of meta-carboranes containing bulky groups attached to the cage C atoms affords sterically-crowded ortho-carboranes with unprecedentedly long C-C connectivities.

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