Metal-free regioselective B-O coupling in carboranes for constructing aggregation-induced emission luminogens.

We report a metal-free regioselective B-O coupling of nido-carboranes enabled by hypervalent iodine(III) under mild conditions. This method establishes a new synthetic platform for the rapid assembly of carborane-based aggregation-induced emission (A…

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