Carboranes are three-dimensional boron-rich clusters valued for their thermal stability, chemical versatility, and distinctive electronic properties. Different cage isomers provide different structural characteristics, making them useful building blocks across medicinal chemistry, materials science, polymer research, and boron-related applications.
UCHEM offers a range of key carborane compounds:
Decaborane(14) - CAS 17702-41-9
The three carborane isomers share the characteristic icosahedral C2B10 cage while differing in carbon-vertex positions and resulting molecular properties. o-Carborane is particularly useful as a reactive platform for functionalization, while m-Carborane and p-Carborane provide alternative structural characteristics for applications involving photophysical properties, thermal stability, and functional materials.
Decaborane(14) serves as an important boron-rich precursor in carborane chemistry and can be used in the preparation of various boron-containing compounds.
For customers working across medicinal chemistry, advanced polymers, molecular materials, or boron chemistry, selecting the appropriate cage structure can be an important part of route and material design.
UCHEM offers multi-gram to kilogram-scale supply of all four compounds, with consistent quality and production capacity to support both research projects and larger-scale requirements.
