Patent ID: 8709280

Claim:
A compound comprising the following structure: wherein is a caged boron structure where the sphere of the caged boron structure is C and each non-sphere vertex of the caged boron structure is B—H; wherein R is H, an alkyl, a cycloalkyl, a bicycloalkyl, an alkenyl, a cycloalkenyl, a bicycloalkenyl, an alkynyl, an acyl, an aryl, an alkylaryl, a halogen, a cyano group, or an isothiocyanoto group, or where R is a group that forms an ether, a ketone, an ester, a thioester, a sulfide, or a sulfone; and wherein R′ is H, an alkyl, a cycloalkyl, a bicycloalkyl, an alkenyl, a cycloalkenyl, a bicycloalkenyl, an alkynyl, an aryl, an alkylaryl, or a halogen.