Weakly Coordinating Nature of a Carborane Cage Bearing Different Halogen Atoms. Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Icosahedral Mixed Halocarborane Anions, 1-H-CB11Y5X6- (X, Y = Cl, Br, I)
Chi-Wing Tsang; Qingchuan Yang; Eric Tung-Po Sze; Thomas C. W. Mak; Dominic T. W. Chan; Zuowei Xie; Inorganic Chemistry 39 (2000) 5851–5858; doi:10.1021/ic000354r

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_publ_section_title
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 Weakly Coordinating Nature of a Carborane Cage Bearing Different Halogen
 Atoms. Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Icosahedral Mixed
 Halocarborane Anions, 1-H-CB11Y5X6- (X, Y = Cl, Br, I)
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_journal_name_full               'Inorganic Chemistry'
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