The ability to synthesize metallaboranes of fixed cluster shape with varying numbers of metal atoms and metal identities highlights the unique ways in which the metals differ from their main-group counterparts in a cluster environment. Thus we have found that electronic unsaturation introduced by the use of early transition metals is expressed in an intriguing and novel manner in a metallaborane cluster.
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Thomas P. Fehlner (1998) studied this question.