The tailoring of smart material properties is one of the challenges in materials science. The
unique features of polymers with pendant ferrocene units, either as ferrocenyl or …

In recent years, research in the fields of optoelectronics, anion sensors and bioimaging
agents have been greatly influenced by novel compounds containing triarylborane motifs …

This perspective highlights recent progress on the design, synthesis and applications of
thienylboranes as building blocks for new functional materials. Well-controlled synthetic …

Boron-containing π-conjugated molecules offer a substantial application potential in the field
of organic electronics. During the last decade, aryl (hydro) boranes have established …

A series of polymers (PB n T, n= 2–5) with boron atoms incorporated into the conjugated
polythiophene main chain have been prepared via Pd-catalyzed coupling of stannylated …

Since its first report in 1981, mesitylcopper has become an extremely popular and useful
reagent, with many new applications emerging during the past decade. This review …

A series of highly luminescent monodisperse fluoreneborane oligomers (n= 1–6) were
prepared using a new iterative synthetic procedure that takes advantage of the highly …

The targeted hydrolysis of the 9, 10‐dihydro‐9, 10‐diboraanthracene adduct (Me2S) HB
(C6H4) 2BH (SMe2)(1) with 0.5 equiv of H2O leads to formation of the borinic acid …

A poly (biphenylene–pyrazinylene)(PPz, E gopt= 3.10 eV) and a head-to-tail regioregular
polypyridine (rr-P4Py, E gopt= 3.25 eV) equipped with 1-alkenyl side chains have been …

Recent advances in the synthesis of organoborane polymers are reviewed in this chapter.
The last decade has witnessed new approaches for the direct polymerization of functional …