Published on Web 06/22/2004
Polyborane Reactions in Ionic Liquids: New Efficient Routes to Functionalized Decaborane and o-Carborane Clusters Upal Kusari,1a Yuqi Li,1a Mark G. Bradley,1b and Larry G. Sneddon*,1a Departments of Chemistry, UniVersity of PennsylVania, Philadelphia, PennsylVania 19104-6323, and Widener UniVersity, Chester, PennsylVania 19013-5792 Received April 6, 2004; E-mail:
[email protected] Ionic liquids (IL) are salts that are liquid at low temperatures (