Site-specific synthesis of a hybrid boron-graphene salt

Jan U Kahlert; Christopher J D Austin; Andrew J Hall; Aditya Rawal; James M Hook; Louis M Rendina; Mohammad Choucair

doi:10.1039/c5cc07611k

Site-specific synthesis of a hybrid boron-graphene salt

Chem Commun (Camb). 2016 Jan 21;52(6):1290-2. doi: 10.1039/c5cc07611k.

Authors

Jan U Kahlert¹, Christopher J D Austin¹, Andrew J Hall¹, Aditya Rawal², James M Hook², Louis M Rendina¹, Mohammad Choucair¹

Affiliations

¹ School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney 2006, Australia. m.choucair@sydney.edu.au lou.rendina@sydney.edu.au.
² Mark Wainwright Analytical Centre, NMR Facility, University of New South Wales, Sydney 2052, Australia.

PMID: 26627051
DOI: 10.1039/c5cc07611k

Abstract

We report the first example of an ionic graphene salt containing boron. An anionic charge is introduced to the graphene surface by means of 7,8-nido-[C2B9H11](-) carborane clusters covalently and electronically bound to the graphene lattice, and this new material was isolated as its Cs(+) salt.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't