Boron is an interesting element with unusual polymorphism. While three-dimensional (3D) structural motifs are prevalent in bulk boron, atomic boron clusters are found to have planar or quasi-planar structures, stabilized by localized two-center-two-electron (2c-2e) σ bonds on the periphery and delocalized multicenter-two-electron (nc-2e) bonds in both σ and π frameworks. Electron delocalization...

Borocaptate sodium (Na2B12H11SH) is a potentially useful compound for boron neutron capture therapy of intracranial tumors. Tumor and normal tissue boron concentrations were evaluated in 30 dogs with naturally occurring intracranial tumors after i.v. borocaptate sodium infusion (55 mg boron/kg). Postmortem tissue boron concentrations were measured for three postinfusion time periods (2, 6, and ...

A series of B(OR)2-smaragdyrin complexes were synthesized by treating BF2-smaragdyrin complex with various aliphatic and aromatic alcohols in the presence of AlCl3 in CH2Cl2 at room temperature. The compounds are stable and characterized by various spectroscopic and electrochemical techniques. The X-ray structure solved for one of the B(OR)2-smaragdyrin complex showed that the macrocycle is pla...

Mine geologists use the term “garnierite” for the green Ni-rich silicate minerals that occur in many Ni-laterite deposits. However, garnierite is not a mineral species recognized by the Commission on New Mineral and Mineral Names (CNMMN). Actually, garnierite is a general name for the NiMg hydrosilicates that usually occur as an intimate mixture that commonly includes two or more of the followi...

The structural and electronic properties for di-tantalum boride clusters Ta(2)B(x)(-) (x = 2-5) were investigated using photoelectron spectroscopy and density functional calculations. The photoelectron spectra for Ta(2)B(x)(-) (x = 2-5) are obtained at several photon energies with rich spectral features. Density functional theory calculations are performed at the BP86 level to search for the gl...

Medical texts are filled with mentions of diseases, disorders, and other clinical conditions, with many different surface forms relating to the same condition. We describe MINERAL, a system for extraction and normalization of disease mentions in clinical text, with which we participated in the Task 14 of SemEval 2015 evaluation campaign. MINERAL relies on a conditional random fields-based model...

This study presents the proximate and mineral composition of Peperomia pellucida L., an underexploited weed plant in Malaysia. Proximate analysis was performed using standard AOAC methods and mineral contents were determined using atomic absorption spectrometry. The results indicated Peperomia pellucida to be rich in crude protein, carbohydrate and total ash contents. The high amount of total a...

The structure and properties of grain boundaries in the intermetallic alloy Ni3A1 have received considerable attention in the past several years due to their interesting mechanical properties. The aim in many of these studies [1-13] was to explain the increase in ductility that occurs when polycrystalline Ni3AI is doped with boron. Experimental observations [1-7] have shown that there is a stro...