Group III Boron, Aluminium, Gallium, Indium, and Thallium

The format of this year s report follows that established last year. Aspects of the organic applications of the five elements are covered elsewhere, and are again omitted from this survey. Overall, reports on boron are up while those on the middle triad of elements are down, largely due to a diminution of interest in the chemistry of oligomeric 13-15 compounds. Activity in the area of thallium chemistry has remained flat, generating less than a quarter of the reports of any of the elements A1 to In and an order a magnitude lower than those for boron. 

Reviews which will be of general interest cover the use of sterically hindered diaryboranes in the chemistry of boron-stabilised carbanions, and a specialist publication of the Royal Society of Chemistry covering a much broader range of contemporary topics.  

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J. P. Maher Group III Boron, aluminium, gallium, indium, and thallium, pp. 40-103 (269). 

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