Boranes and beyond : history and the man who created them / M. Frederick Hawthorne ; text edited by Kurt E. Robinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hawthorne, M. Frederick, author.

Contributor:

Robinson, Kurt E., editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boron.

Chemistry, Inorganic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Springer, [2023]

Contents:

PART I MY CONTRIBUTIONS TO INORGANIC CHEMISTRY

1. Exploratory Chemistry with a Multifunctional Model Borane, B10H14

2. Discovery of the Polyhedral Borane Anions [closo-B10H10]2-

3.The Genesis and Evolution of Carborane Chemistry: Examples of Heteroatom-Substituted Borane Clusters

4. The Design and Synthesis of Hybrid Borane Clusters: Metallacarboranes and Metallaboranes

5. Probing New Reactions: Oxidative Addition to B-H Bonds, Reactions at Metal Vertices and Catalysis

6

The Search for Clustered Clusters

7. Unique Main Group, Lanthanide and Alkaline-Earth Metallacarboranes; Sandwiches, Baskets, and Self-Assembled Chains

8. Biomedical Applications of Borane Cluster Chemistry

9.Carborane-Supported Macrocyclic Lewis Acids: Novel Electrophilic Host Species

10. Molecular Frameworks Based upon Carborane Cages

11.Highly Alkylated Carborane Icosahedral [closo-B12H12]2- Derivatives (Camouflaged Carboranes and Polyhedral Boranes)

12. Icosahedral Borane Dianion and Carborane Species with Hydroxylated Surfaces

13. Advances in [closo-B10H10]2- and Related [B20H18]2-/[B20H18]4 Chemistry

A FEW PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE ALBUM

PART II MY PERSONAL STORY

14. Early Life in Kansas and Missouri

15. WW II, High School and Chemistry

16. College Entry and Chemistry Mentor

17. Pomona College and Research

18. UCLA Graduate Work with Donald J. Cram, and Predoctoral Fellowship

19. PhD Thesis

20. Postdoctoral Research with George Hammond at Iowa State

21. Huntsville Research at Start of Career

22. Life With Explosives and Rockets

23. Creating A New Research Group Based Upon Sparsely Known Borane Chemistry

24. Success in New Fields of Propellant Chemistry

25. Moving on to New Concepts for Solid Propellant Rocket Fuel

26. Energetic Materials

27. Ralph Connor and Rohm and Haas Huntsville

28. Harvard Teaching

29. Laboratory Head at Rohm and Haas Philadelphia

30. Full Professor at UC Riverside and Flying

31. Metallacarboranes etc

32. Flying with Herb Brown, Nobel Laureate

33. Hank Herring

34. Industrial and Military Consulting

35. Boron Neutron Capture Therapy

36. UCLA Professor 1969 to 2006

37. Editorship of Inorganic Chemistry

38. Return to Missouri: The Founding Director for The International Institute of Nano and Molecular Medicine

39. Personal Experience with Head and Neck Cancer

40. BNCT Odyssey

AFTER-WORDS

BIBLIOGRAPHY

AWARDS, HONORS AND LECTURESHIPS.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

1071629085

9781071629086

Publisher Number:

99994074324

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