@article {142, title = {10-vertex closo-carborane: a unique ligand platform for porous coordination polymers}, journal = {CrystEngComm}, volume = {18}, year = {2016}, month = {06/2016}, pages = {2036-2040}, chapter = {2036}, abstract = {

1,10-dicarboxy-1,10-dicarba-closo-decaborane, a classical dicarboxylate spacer ligand type similar to the prototypal terephthalic acid, proved to be different not only from the latter, but also the closest relative, the 1,12-dicarboxy-closo-1,12-dicarbadecaborane regarding topology of the derived PCPs. Highly porous and robust compounds of zinc (rob net) and cobalt ({\textquoteright}quasi{\textquoteright} pcu) as well as a topologically unexpected copper compound (lvt) define the individuality of the 10-vertex carborane cage as a new fundamental spacer type in PCP chemistry. A combination of smaller sterics compared to the 12-vertex analogue, 45{\textdegree} preferred-orientation angle between the carboxylate planes and moderately low rotation barrier are held responsible for the uniqueness.

}, keywords = {10 vertex, carborane, Co, crystallography, Cu, MOF, porous coordination polymers, Zn}, doi = {10.1039/C5CE02501J}, url = {http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2016/ce/c5ce02501j$\#$!divAbstract}, author = {Ishtvan Boldog and Pablo J Bereciartua and Roman Bulanek and Monika Kucerakova and Marketa Tomandlova and Michal Dusek and Jan Machacek and Dirk De Vos and Tomas Base} } @article {139, title = {Self-Assembled p-Carborane Analog of p-Mercaptobenzoic Acid on Au{111}}, journal = {Chemistry of Materials}, volume = {27}, year = {2015}, month = {06/2015}, pages = {5425{\textendash}5435}, type = {Article}, chapter = {5425}, abstract = {

Thep-carborane cluster analog of p-mercaptobenzoic acid, 1

}, keywords = {boron compounds, carborane, crystallography, scanning tunneling microscopy, self-assembly}, doi = {10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b02263}, url = {http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b02263}, author = {John C Thomas and Ishtvan Boldog and Harsharn S Auluck and Pablo J Bereciartua and Michal Dusek and Jan Machacek and Zdenek Bastl and Paul S Weiss and Tomas Base} }