Boranes and Beyond

PART I MY CONTRIBUTIONS TO INORGANIC CHEMISTRY.- 1. Exploratory Chemistry with a Multifunctional Model Borane, B₁₀H₁₄.- 2. Discovery of the Polyhedral Borane Anions [closo-B₁₀H₁₀]^2-.- 3.The Genesis and Evolution of Carborane Chemistry: Examples of Heteroatom-Substituted Borane Clusters.- 4. The Design and Synthesis of Hybrid Borane Clusters: Metallacarboranes and Metallaboranes.- 5. Probing New Reactions: Oxidative Addition to B-H Bonds, Reactions at Metal Vertices and Catalysis.- 6.- The Search for "Clustered Clusters".- 7. Unique Main Group, Lanthanide and Alkaline-Earth Metallacarboranes; Sandwiches, Baskets, and Self-Assembled Chains.- 8. Biomedical Applications of Borane Cluster Chemistry.- 9.Carborane-Supported Macrocyclic Lewis Acids: Novel Electrophilic Host Species.- 10. Molecular Frameworks Based upon Carborane Cages.- 11.Highly Alkylated Carborane Icosahedral [closo-B₁₂H₁₂]^2- Derivatives ("Camouflaged Carboranes and Polyhedral Boranes).- 12. Icosahedral Borane Dianion and Carborane Species with Hydroxylated Surfaces.- 13. Advances in [closo-B₁₀H₁₀]^2- and Related [B₂₀H₁₈]^2-/[B₂₀H₁₈]^{4 -} Chemistry.- A FEW PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE ALBUM.- PART II MY PERSONAL STORY.- 14. Early Life in Kansas and Missouri.- 15. WW II, High School and Chemistry.- 16. College Entry and Chemistry Mentor.- 17. Pomona College and Research.- 18. UCLA Graduate Work with Donald J. Cram, and Predoctoral Fellowship.- 19. PhD Thesis.- 20. Postdoctoral Research with George Hammond at Iowa State.- 21. Huntsville Research at Start of Career.- 22. Life With Explosives and Rockets.- 23. Creating A New Research Group Based Upon Sparsely Known Borane Chemistry.- 24. Success in New Fields of Propellant Chemistry.- 25. Moving on to New Concepts for Solid PropellantRocket Fuel.- 26. Energetic Materials.- 27. Ralph Connor and Rohm and Haas Huntsville.- 28. Harvard Teaching.- 29. Laboratory Head at Rohm and Haas Philadelphia.- 30. Full Professor at UC Riverside and Flying.- 31. Metallacarboranes etc.- 32. Flying with Herb Brown, Nobel Laureate.- 33. Hank Herring.- 34. Industrial and Military Consulting.- 35. Boron Neutron Capture Therapy.- 36. UCLA Professor 1969 to 2006.- 37. Editorship of Inorganic Chemistry.- 38. Return to Missouri: The Founding Director for The International Institute of Nano and Molecular Medicine.- 39. Personal Experience with Head and Neck Cancer.- 40. BNCT Odyssey.- AFTER-WORDS.- BIBLIOGRAPHY.- AWARDS, HONORS AND LECTURESHIPS.