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A novel carbons-adjacent arachno -carborane tetraanion has been prepared and structurally characterized for the first time by direct reduction of 1,2- o -xylylene-1,2-carborane with excess Li metal. This tetraanion possesses both hexagonal and pentagonal bonding faces, which would lead to the generation of a new class of metallacarboranes.
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