Boranes and Beyond

PART I MY CONTRIBUTIONS TO INORGANIC CHEMISTRY. - 1. Exploratory Chemistry with a Multifunctional Model Borane, B
₁₀
H
₁₄
. - 2. Discovery of the Polyhedral Borane Anions [
closo
-B
₁₀
H
₁₀
]
^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
-B
₁₂
H
₁₂
]
^2-
Derivatives ( Camouflaged Carboranes and Polyhedral Boranes). - 12. Icosahedral Borane Dianion and Carborane Species with Hydroxylated Surfaces. - 13. Advances in [
closo
-B
₁₀
H
₁₀
]
^2-
and Related [B
₂₀
H
₁₈
]
^2-/
[B
₂₀
H
₁₈
]
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 PropellantRocket 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.