Structural transformations in boron clusters induced by metal do**

J Barroso, S Pan, G Merino - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In the last decades, experimental techniques in conjunction with theoretical analyses have
revealed the surprising structural diversity of boron clusters. Although the 2D to 3D transition …

Understanding boron through size-selected clusters: structure, chemical bonding, and fluxionality

AP Sergeeva, IA Popov, ZA Piazza, WL Li… - Accounts of chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Boron is an interesting element with unusual polymorphism. While three-
dimensional (3D) structural motifs are prevalent in bulk boron, atomic boron clusters are …

Probing the structures and bonding of size-selected boron and doped-boron clusters

T Jian, X Chen, SD Li, AI Boldyrev, J Li… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Because of their interesting structures and bonding and potentials as motifs for new
nanomaterials, size-selected boron clusters have received tremendous interest in recent …

From planar boron clusters to borophenes and metalloborophenes

WL Li, X Chen, T Jian, TT Chen, J Li… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Elemental boron and its compounds exhibit unusual structures and chemical bonding owing
to the electron deficiency of boron. Joint photoelectron spectroscopy and theoretical studies …

Small Ring Molecules Comprising 3–6 Boron Atoms: An Account on Synthesis, Structure, and Orbital Engineering

S Kar, S Bairagi, G Joshi, ED Jemmis… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Unlike carbon, boron does not usually form ring compounds due to its electron-
deficiency-driven affinity toward polyhedral geometries. The polyhedral boranes having …

Four decades of the chemistry of planar hypercoordinate compounds

LM Yang, E Ganz, Z Chen, ZX Wang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The idea of planar tetracoordinate carbon (ptC) was considered implausible for a hundred
years after 1874. Examples of ptC were then predicted computationally and realized …

Structural Stability and Evolution of Medium-Sized Tantalum-Doped Boron Clusters: A Half-Sandwich-Structured TaB12 Cluster

BL Chen, WG Sun, XY Kuang, C Lu, XX **a… - Inorganic …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Transition-metal (TM)-doped boron clusters have received considerable attention in recent
years, in part, because of their remarkable size-dependent structural and electronic …

Boron: enabling exciting metal-rich structures and magnetic properties

JP Scheifers, Y Zhang, BPT Fokwa - Accounts of chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Boron's unique chemical properties and its reactions with metals have yielded
the large class of metal borides with compositions ranging from the most boron-rich YB66 …

Geometric and electronic diversity of metal doped boron clusters

B Chen, K He, W Dai, GL Gutsev… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Being intermediate between small compounds and bulk materials, nanoparticles possess
unique properties different from those of atoms, molecules, and bulk matter. In the past two …

Complexes between Planar Boron Clusters and Transition Metals: A Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Ab Initio Study of CoB12 and RhB12

IA Popov, WL Li, ZA Piazza, AI Boldyrev… - The Journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Small boron clusters are known to be planar, and may be used as ligands to form novel
coordination complexes with transition metals. Here we report a combined photoelectron …