Platinum catalyzed sequential hydroboration of decaborane: a facile approach to poly(alkenyldecaborane) with decaborane in the mainchain.

The hydroboration reaction as a key for a straightforward synthesis of new MRI-NCT agents.

In this study the hydroboration reaction has been exploited to produce in only four steps a new lipophilic GdBNCT/MRI agent (PB01). As a matter of fact, the formation of a new B–C bond to link the decaborane with the lipophilic moiety greatly simplifies the synthesis of PB01 with respect to the previously reported dual agents. The complexes obtained (PB01a and PB01b) have been fully characteris...

Deposition of Boron-Containing Films From Decaborane

Catalytic transfer hydrogenation of conjugated nitroalkenes using decaborane: synthesis of oximes.

alpha,beta-Unsaturated nitroalkenes are readily reduced to the corresponding aldoximes and ketoximes in good yields, using a system of decaborane (B10H14) and DMSO in methanol in the presence of 10% Pd/C at room temperature under nitrogen.

Problems in the study of decaborane and possible therapy of its poisoning.

Nanoenergetic materials: boron nanoparticles from the pyrolysis of decaborane and their functionalisation.

The surfaces of boron nanoparticles 10-150 nm in diameter, prepared by gas phase pyrolysis of decaborane vapour at 1 atm and 700-900 degrees C, can be halogenated by treatment with Br2 or XeF2; the surface halogenation somewhat increases the onset temperature for the oxidation of the particles under O2.