The history of silyl cations has all the makings of a drama but with a happy ending. Being
considered reactive intermediates impossible to isolate in the condensed phase for …

This Review gives a comprehensive overview of the most topical weakly coordinating
anions (WCAs) and contains information on WCA design, stability, and applications. As an …

The chemistry of the p-block elements is a huge playground for fundamental and applied
work. With their bonding from electron deficient to hypercoordinate and formally hypervalent …

Purified LiAlH4 reacts with fluorinated alcohols HORF to give LiAl (ORF) 4 (RF=− CH (CF3)
2, 2 a;− C (CH3)(CF3) 2, 2 b;− C (CF3) 3, 2 c) in 77 to 90% yield. The crude lithium …

For decades, triflic acid, methyl triflate, and trialkylsilyl triflate reagents have served synthetic
chemistry well as clean, strong electrophilic sources of H+, CH3+, and R3Si+, respectively …

In the 40 years since the discovery of transition metal catalysts for olefin polymerization by
Ziegler and Natta, 1, 2 a substantial amount of research has been directed toward …

Polyhedral boranes and carborane clusters are characterized by delocalized electron
deficient bonding, meaning that there are too few valence electrons for bonding to be …

Polyhedral borane and carborane clusters are characterized by delocalized electron-
deficient bonding, meaning that there are too few valence electrons for bonding to be …

The hydrogen-bridged disilyl cation 6 with an 1, 8-naphthalenediyl backbone was
synthesized and was characterized by NMR spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography …

Trialkylsilylium cation equivalents partnered with halogenated carborane anions (such as
Et3Si [HCB11H5Cl6]) function as efficient and long-lived catalysts for hydrodehalogenation …