Isolobal analogy Applications

Chapter 13 in the first edition covered a variety of topics relating to applications of organometallic chemistry to other areas of science. This material has been eliminated with the exception of material on fullerenes, which now appears in Chapter 6. Chapter 13 updates the discussion of the isolobal analogy and cluster chemistry, which was the purview of Chapter 12 in the first edition. 

In 1981, Roald Hoffmann and K. Fukui were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of semi-empirical theoretical methods and their applications to organic, inorganic and organometallic chemistry. Hoffmann was also recognized for the development of the isolobal analogy, a very useful concept in molecular chemistry. 

Obviously these isolobal comparisons can be made for any compound of boron. Systematic application of the analogy in boranes will definitely unearth a lot of new chemistry, extending the chemistry of the boranes to other systems. 

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