Boron Chemistry Lights the Way: Optical Properties of Molecular and Polymeric Systems

✍ Scribed by Christopher D. Entwistle; Todd B. Marder

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 99 KB
• Volume: 41
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-8249
• DOI: 10.1002/1521-3773(20020816)41:16<2927::aid-anie2927>3.0.co;2-l

✦ Synopsis

Electrooptical and electronic materials are the subject of much research interest, whereby the focus has often been on electron-rich organic molecules. In the past years, new routes to electron-deficient systems have been developed that take advantage of the fact that three-coordinate boron is isoelectronic and isostructural with a positively charged carbocation, which allows neutral, p-type materials to be synthesized directly. This minireview summarizes recent work on compounds with 3- and 4-coordinate boron as well as boron clusters, placing it in the context of prior studies by the research groups of Williams and Glowgowski, Kaim, Lequan, and Marder.