Understanding and Harnessing the Unique and Curious Metal Boron Bond: Unlocking the Metallaboratrane Cage

由于硼基金属介导的合成转化的出现，金属-硼键具有巨大的技术重要性，可以获得多种高附加值的精细化学品。虽然澳大利亚以新兴的硼基精细化工工业而自豪，但目前还没有针对金属硼键性质的研究项目，以提供有机金属硼化学的基础科学或高级培训。提议的工作提供了两个明显的国家利益：维持澳大利亚领先世界的学科（金属硼烷）和一个学科的起源，虽然在其他地方得到了广泛的研究，但在澳大利亚的科学基础（低坐标，不饱和硼化学）中明显缺席。

Metal-boron bonding holds enormous technological importance due to the emergence of boron-based metal-mediated synthetic transformations that access a diversity of high value-added fine chemicals. Whilst Australia boasts an emergent boron-based fine chemicals industry, no research program into the nature of metal boron bonding exists to provide either fundamental science or advanced training in organometallic boron chemistry. The proposed work offers two distinct national benefits: The maintenance of a discipline in which Australia leads the world (metallaboratranes) and the genesis of one, which whilst intensely studied elsewhere, is notably absent from the Australian science base (low coordinate, unsaturated boron chemistry).