Inorganic Chemistry, Vol.40, No.21, 5318-5319, 2001
The first 8-vertex monocarbon metallacarborane with an "isolated" boron-capped pentagonal bipyramidal cage. Synthesis and molecular structure of capped closo-2,2-(Ph3P)(2)-2-H-3,6,8-(MeO)(3)-RuCB6H4