title: Triflyloxy-substituted carboranes as useful weakly coordinating anions.
abstract: New carborane anions carrying one or three triflyloxy substituents are described. The mono-triflyloxy substituted carborane can be halogenated to give pentabromo and decachloro derivatives with preservation of the B-OTf linkage. The use of [HCB11Cl10OTf](-) as a weakly coordinating anion is demonstrated.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77842, USA.
authors.forename: Loren P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Press
authors.forename: Billy J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: McCulloch
authors.forename: Weixing
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Gu
authors.forename: Chun-Hsing
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Bruce M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Foxman
authors.forename: Oleg V
authors.initials: OV
authors.lastname: Ozerov