Hypercarbon chemistry

From Kekule s Four-Valent Carbon to Five- and Higher-Coordinate Hypercarbon Chemistry... 

It is remarkable that chemists long resisted making the connection between boron and electron-deficient carbon, which, after all, are analogs. I was thus given the opportunity to be able to establish the general concept of five and six coordination of electron-deficient carbon and to open up the field of what I called hypercarbon chemistry. 

This was one of the few times I ever made a prediction of the possible future significance of my chemistry. More than a quarter of a century later I take some satisfaction that 1 was correct and that, indeed, hypercarbon chemistry has a significant place on the wide palette of chemistry. 

Hypercarbon Chemistry (with Prakash, Williams, Field, and Wade), 1987. 

G. A. Olah, G. K. Surya Prakash, R. E. Williams, L. D. Field, K. Wade, Hypercarbon Chemistry, Wiley, New York, 1987 E. Muetterties, Boron Hydride Chemistry, Academic Press, New "Vbrk, 1975 R. N. Grimes, Carboranes, Academic Press, New York, 1970 T. Onak, Organoborane Chemistry, Academic Press, New York, 1975 V I. Bregadze, Chem. Rev., 92, 209 (1992). 

Olah, G.A. Prakash, G.K.S. Williams, R.E. Wade, K. Hypercarbon Chemistry, Wiley-lnterscience New York, NY, 1987,148f. 

For a monograph on (his type of species, see Olah Prakash Williams Field Wade Hypercarbon Chemistry Wiley New York, 1987. 

G. A. Olah, G.K.S. Prakash, R.E. Williams, L.D. Field and K. Wade, Hypercarbon Chemistry, John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1987. 

Hypercarbon Chemistry, Second Edition. George A. Olah, G. K. Surya Prakash, Kenneth Wade, Arpad Molnar, Robert E. Williams. 

To illustrate the wide and developing scope of hypercarbon chemistry by illustrating the variety of compounds now known to contain hypercarbon atoms (carbocations,organometallics, carboranes, metal-carbon cluster compounds," and metal carbides ).They include bridged metal alkyls such as alkyl-lithium reagents (LiR) in which the hypercoordinated nature of the metal-attached carbon atoms, and the roles that the metal atoms play in their chemistry, are often overlooked. 

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