Boron Chemistry Lights the Way: Optical Properties of Molecular and Polymeric Systems C.D.E. thanks EPSRC for a postgraduate studentship and Syngenta for a postgraduate scholarship, and T.B.M. thanks the University of Durham for support and Prof. Dr. K. Tamao for a preprint of ref. 32.

作者：C.D. Entwistle, Todd B. Marder · 发表于：Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 年份：2002 · DOI：10.1002/1521-3773(20020816)41:16<2927::aid-anie2927>3.0.co;2-l · 被引用次数：768 · 研究领域：Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry、Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds、Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research

Electrooptical and electronic materials are the subject of much research interest, whereby the focus has often been on electron-rich organic molecules. In the past years, new routes to electron-deficient systems have been developed that take advantage of the fact that three-coordinate boron is isoelectronic and isostructural with a positively charged carbocation, which allows neutral, p-type materials to be synthesized directly. This minireview summarizes recent work on compounds with 3- and 4-coordinate boron as well as boron clusters, placing it in the context of prior studies by the research groups of Williams and Glowgowski, Kaim, Lequan, and Marder.